Historical Thinking Vocabulary

The reason why a document was created

• History

• point of view

• purpose

• bial

The argument that you are making, which you will use evidence to support

• bias

• reliability

• audience

• claim

A strong opinion that is based more on emotion than on evidence.

• bias

• audience

• point of view

• reliability

This is shaped by life experience and motives, race, ethnicity, nationality, class, ideas, gender and other factors.

• primary source

• secondary source

• point of view

• reliability

The person or group who created the source.

• author

• historical context

• claim

• audience

An account of the past constructed from evidence.

• Claim

• History

• Author

• Audience

Materials from the time period being studied.

• historical context

• audience

• reliability

• primary source

The usefulness of information in a source for a given purpose.

• reliability

• secondary source

• primary source

• historical context

The events that led to an event; includes the time period and larger historical trends as well as causes.

• reliability

• bias

• point of view

• Historical Context

The person or group of people that a message is for.

• audience

• bias

• purpose

• point of view