Unit 1.4 Vocabulary Quiz: Skills for Historical Inquiry

The process of breaking down a complex document like the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen into its individual parts to understand it better is called...

• jigsaw.

• metacognition.

• analysis.

• collaboration.

The skill of writing notes and comments directly on a text to highlight key ideas, ask questions, and define words is called...

• synthesis.

• corroboration.

• bias.

• annotation.

The overall skill of constructing a historical claim and supporting it with logical evidence is known as...

• sourcing.

• argumentation.

• corroboration.

• annotation.

Paul Revere's famous engraving of the Boston Massacre depicts the British soldiers as evil aggressors. This strong opinion that makes the source potentially unfair is an example of...

• collaboration.

• bias.

• synthesis.

• sourcing.

The statement, 'The Enlightenment's focus on reason was the single most important cause of the French Revolution,' is an example of a(n)...

• piece of evidence.

• collaboration.

• primary source.

• claim.

Working effectively in a small group to analyze documents and prepare for a presentation is a demonstration of...

• bias.

• annotation.

• primary source.

• collaboration.

To understand why Thomas Hobbes believed in an absolute sovereign, a historian must consider the violent English Civil War that he lived through. This skill of placing an event in its proper time and place is called...

• annotating.

• contextualizing.

• jigsaw.

• sourcing.

A historian finds a British soldier's report about the Boston Massacre and compares it to Paul Revere's engraving and a colonist's diary to check for agreements and disagreements. This act is called...

• bias.

• claim.

• corroboration.

• a primary source.

A formal class activity where one team argues that Hobbes was right and another team argues that Locke was right, using evidence to support their claims, is a...

• Socratic seminar.

• debate.

• jigsaw.

• annotation.

The ability to effectively find trustworthy information online, evaluate websites for bias, and create a digital presentation is known as...

• sourcing.

• digital literacy.

• annotation.

• collaboration.