Historical Thinking Skills Review

What is causation?

• determining how one event leads to another

• a particular attitude or way of considering a matter; perspective

• a confident and forceful statement of fact or belief

• a conclusion reached based on evidence and inferences

Written at the time of the event

• primary source
• secondary source

The act of comparing pieces of evidence and seeing if they agree or disagree is known as

• Analysis

• Contextualiztion

• Causation and Consequence

• Corroboration

Which historical thinking skill do the following questions most closely relate to:

Who created it? From what perspective or point of view? When was it written? Why was it written? Is it reliable?

• Contextualization

• Corroboration

• Sourcing

Mark is looking into the German Immigration into Kansas. He wants to know why they decided to move to this state, so he decides to look at what else was going on that might have affected the immigration. He looks at what life was like in Germany, he also looks at what was happening in Kansas that might have attracted the immigrants. Which method of historical thinking is Mark doing?

• Sourcing

• Close Reading

• Contextualizing

• Corroborating

Dakota is studying the American Revolution in her U.S. History class. She is looking at a painting that was created by Paul Revere about the Boston Massacre. She knows that Paul Revere witnessed the account so his painting is a primary source. She decides to do some more researching about Revere BEFORE she studies the painting. She discovers that he may have been exaggerating in his drawings. She decides that they may not be able to trust his source completely. Which historical thinking method is Dakota practicing?

• Corroborating

• Close Reading

• Sourcing

• Contextualizing

Jacob is researching factories in the early 1800’s. In order to get the best idea possible, he looks at a painting of the town that centered around a clothing factory in 1832, he reads a journal entry from one of the women who worked in the factory, and he watches a video on the History Channel about factory life in the early 1800s. He plans to compare the sources and see where they agree. Which method of thinking like a historian is Jacob participating in?

• Corroborating

• Contextualizing

• Close Reading

• Sourcing

What is the practice of comparing and contrasting information from multiple sources to identify trends?

• Corroboration
• Comparison
• Contextualization
• Interpretation

What skill involves determining the causes and effects of historical events and developments?

• Analysis
• Contextualization
• Interpretation
• Inquiry

What is the purpose of understanding the historical setting of an event or source?

• To interpret meaning
• To identify authorship
• To determine bias
• To establish credibility