Historical Thinking Skills Review

A historian is a person who studies ___________________.

• life on earth

• human behavior

• human culture

• the past

Which type of source comes directly from a person who experienced an event?

• primary source

• secondary source

Which type of source does not come from someone with direct knowledge of an event, but is created by studying other sources?

• primary source

• secondary source

What is the word for an object created by humans?

• oral history

• artifact

• primary source

• secondary source

What is the term for a community's cultural and historical background passed down in spoken stories and songs?

• oral history

• artifact

• primary source

• secondary source

______________________ is the unjustified preference for or dislike of something.

• bias

• perspective

• author

• point of view

What type of source is this?

Rosa Parks describing her role in the Montgomery Alabama bus boycotts.

• Primary

• Secondary

What type of source is this?

A US History textbook chapter describing the civil war.

• Primary

• Secondary

What type of source is this?

An interview with a soldier who fought in Afghanistan about his experiences there.

• Primary

• Secondary

What type of source is this?

The Malala Yousafzai's autobiography

I am Malala.

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source