US History Final Exam Review

A primary source is...

• a textbook

• a person that knows everything

• a letter, document, photograph or object from that time

• evidence created at the time that is being studied

A secondary source is...

• Letters from someone

• Provides direct or firsthand evidence about an event

• A filtered interpretation of history

• An individual's diary

Which source would most likely have historical facts instead of historical interpretations?

• Diary of Columbus

• A Historian writing about Columbus in 1865

• Encyclopedia entry on Columbus

• A Historian writing about Columbus in 1995

What is a PRO of primary sources?

• More detailed description

• First hand experience

• Provided expert analysis

• Less biased than secondary

Which is a CON of primary sources?

• Multiple perspectives presented

• Real human emotions

• Too many historical interpretations

• Usually biased

True or False?

Interpretations of history can be biased.

• True

• False

Why is it important that there are multiple perspectives in history?

• Removes any bias & helps us to understand the events more

• Only one primary source perspective is needed to be correct

• Too many perspectives leads to conspiracy theories

• Determines who is right vs. who is wrong

Time after the Civil War when the USA had to be "rebuilt", especially the South

• Reconstruction

• Abolition Movement

• Gilded Age

• Industrial Age

The Jim Crow Laws in the South were designed to...

• Legalize and expand racial segregation

• Ratify the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments

• Support the Gilded Age

• Cause the KKK to rise again

What was the purpose of Manifest Destiny?

• A quest to unite the Native Americans under one territory

• America wanted to expand its influence coast to coast

• The Americans wanted to take Canada in a series of wars

• Only influence one area of the United States (original 13 colonies)