U.S. History: Historian's Toolkit

What does "continuity" mean, when we are learning about history?

• The way things change

• The way things stay the same

• How we answer a question

• What time period we learned about yesterday

Fill in the blank: ____________ is the study of the past by looking at what people left behind.

• Cartography

• Paleontology

• Archaeology

• Journalism

What is an artifact?

• An object made by people

• A bone

• A tool used to read maps

• A type of museum

Which of the following people is most likely to uncover dinosaur fossils?

• An anthropologist

• A historian

• An architect

• A paleontologist

Which of the following is an example of a primary source?

• A portrait of George Washington that was painted while he sat in the room

• A biography written 100 years after George Washington's death

• An article in the New York Times about George Washington

• A painting of George Washington on his horse, painted in 2024

Which of the following words means, "the remains of plant and animal life that have been preserved from an earlier time"?

• eras

• tariffs

• fossils

• primary sources

Which of these terms means, "the study of human cultures and how they develop over time"?

• science

• history

• archaeology

• anthropology

Which of these is the LONGEST length of time?

• A century

• A decade

• A year

• An era

Which of these tools might we use to show chronology, or, "the order of dates in which events happened"?

• a reference sheet

• a flip book

• a map

• a time line

What are "compelling questions"?

• Major questions about what occurred in the past

• Questions we do not have an answer to

• Questions that start with "why"

• Questions that we ask while very tired