Enduring Issues and Historical Thinking skills Practice

Read the passage and identify the best enduring issue.

In the late 1800's, British manufactured goods dominated world trade. Goods were made more efficiently in Great Britain using a cheap labor force. Britain was able to increase its political, economic and commercial power to edge out other industrial rivals in Europe.

• Abuse of power

• conflict

• discrimination

• impact of technology

Read the passage and identify the best enduring issue:

The genius of apartheid was convincing people who were the overwhelming majority to turn on each other. Apart hate, is what it was. You separate people into groups and make them hate one another so you can run them all. -Trevor Noah "Stories from a South African Childhood" 2016

• Impact of imperialism

• exploitation of workers

• impact of cultural diffusion

• armed struggle

Read the info graphic and identify the best enduring issue:

• human impact on the environment

• scarcity of resources

• threats to balance of power

• threat to cultural identity

Read the passage and identify the best enduring issue:

• human impact on the environment

• impact of nationalism

• shift in boundaries

• conflict

Read the passage and identify the best enduring issue:

• effect of technology

• exploitation of workers

• dispute over boundaries

• reaction to immigrants

Read the political cartoon and identify the best enduring issue:

• exploration of workers

• conflict of ideas and beliefs

• impact of cultural diffusion

• human impact on the environment

Read the passage below from: Randall Frost, The Globalization of Trade, Smart Apple Media, 2004: and choose the best enduring issue.

• impact of technology

• exploitation of workers

• effects of ideas and beliefs

• impact of cultural diffusion

Read the info graphic and identify the best enduring issue:

• impact of colonialism

• impact of technology

• reaction to immigrants

• impact of nationalism

Which historical thinking skill matches the following:

the act of describing where an event took place, what led to it, and why

• Evidence

• Historical Circumstances

• purpose

• cause and effect

Which historical thinking skill matches the following:

the person or group of people that a message is for

• audience

• claim

• evidence

• geographic context