Thinking Like a Historian

What is a century?

• a year period of time

• a 100 year period of time

• a special type of timeline

• a primary source

What best describes the work of a historian?

• Someone who studies time

• Someone who is trying to find evidence of what the past was like

• Someone who writes books about the past

• Someone who records events from the past

Two people can describe the same event in different ways because

• they are in conflict with each other

• the event happened a long time ago

• the event had too many causes

• they have different points of view

a diary written by a child living in Canton 100 years ago

• primary

• secondary

a painting done in 1975 of people escaping on the Underground Railroad

• primary

• secondary

a photograph of soldiers during the Civil War

• primary

• secondary

a biography of George Washington

• primary

• secondary