Historical Concepts and Vocabulary

Fill in the blank: ________ means seeing events the way people did at the time, not through today’s values.

• Historical perspective

• causation

• multiple perspectives

• Presentism

Fill in the blank: ________ is a mistake made when judging the past by today’s values.

• Presentism

• Nostalgia

• Futurism

• Relativism

Fill in the blank: A ________ comes directly from the event and includes speeches, photographs, interviews, and diaries.

• Primary source

• Secondary source

• Textbook

• Novel

Fill in the blank: A ________ is made after the event and explains or analyzes it, like textbooks, biographies, infographics, and editorials.

• Secondary source

• Primary source

• Eyewitness account

• Original document

Fill in the blank: A ________ pulls information from both primary and secondary sources and gives quick facts or summaries, such as encyclopedias, almanacs, bibliographies, and databases.

• Tertiary source

• Primary source

• Secondary source

• Editorial

Fill in the blank: ________ means asking who created a document and why, to see if it’s trustworthy.

• Sourcing

• Summarizing

• Paraphrasing

• Annotating

Fill in the blank: ________ means comparing different sources to see if they agree or disagree.

• Corroboration

• Summarization

• Interpretation

• Bias

Fill in the blank: ________ is about understanding the time and place something happened, so you can better understand people’s actions and beliefs.

• Contextualization

• Summarization

• Generalization

• Prediction

Fill in the blank: ________ means looking carefully at what a source says, how it says it, and what clues it gives about the author’s point of view.

• Close Read

• Skimming

• Summarizing

• Paraphrasing

Fill in the blank: ________ is putting events in the order they happened, often shown on a timeline.

• Chronology

• Geography

• Biology

• Mythology