Thinking Like a Historian Vocabulary Review

What is an artifact?

• an object made by people or used in the past

• a one-sided point of view

• spoken history that one person tells to another

• an understanding of events and people based on the accepted ideas and values of the time period being studied

Which of these is NOT an example of a primary source?

• A biography of George Washington

• A photograph of Amelia Earhart

• A young girl's diary from 1960

• Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech

Which of these is NOT an example of a secondary source?

• A textbook

• An encyclopedia entry

• A newspaper article from today that discusses an event that happened in 1880

• An interview with Oprah Winfrey

Spoken history that one person tells to another is...

• an artifact

• oral history

• perspective

• bias

A one-sided point of view is also called...

• perspective

• bias

• a primary source

• perspective

An understanding of events and people based on the accepted ideas and values of the time period being studied is...

• perspective

• bias

• oral history

• a primary source