US History: Historical Thinking

The following questions represent which Historical Thinking skill?

What do other documents say? Do the documents agree? If not, why? What are other possible documents? What documents are most reliable?

• Contextualization

• Corroboration

• Close Reading

• Sourcing

Perspective is:

• facts

• point of view

• discover / reveal

Evidence

• proof

• disagreements

• discover/reveal

• examine/judge carefully

Evaluate

• to reach a conclusion based on an assumption

• investigate

• to examine / judge carefully

• discover/reveal

An artifact, document, diary, manuscript, or other source of information created at the time of study is a .... 

• Primary Source
• Secondary Source  

Which document is a secondary source? 

• Research findings on video gaming's effects
• Population statistics from the U.S Census Bureau  
• An almanac 
• Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address  

When analyzing sources, what should you read first? 

• Source information
• Context information 
• Content information 
• Corroborate information

Multiple Accounts and Perspectives

• help us get an accurate picture of the past
• are original documents and objects created at the time of study.
• identify and answer questions about the origins of the source.
• locate events and sources in time and space.

Bias

• a person's role in an event (i.e. a witness or a person in a fight

• comes from people who were not present at the event

• first hand account of events

• an unreasoned, emotional judgment about people or events

This geographic condition made farming in the New England Colonies difficult

• Arid climate

• Rocky Soil

• Dense Forest

• Fertile Soil