Histroy Unit Test #1

Question 1

What is history

Answer 1

-Study and analysis of evidence from past events that involved or effected people

Question 2

Historical significance

Answer 2

-Decision that modern people make about what is important from our past
-Results in change

Question 3

Essential Question

Answer 3

-Question that frames a focus of study as a problem to be solved
-Facilitates critical thinking

Question 4

Defining Moment

Answer 4

-event/action that results in significant change for a person, country, institution

Question 5

Historical Methodology

Answer 5

The process by which a historian formulated interpretation and constructs their view of a topic

Question 6

Historiography

Answer 6

The writing of history based on critical examination of sources

Question 7

Primary source

Answer 7

Evidence of history that comes from time of event

Question 8

Secondary Source

Answer 8

-Evidence that has been written about
-Can include bias
-Based of primary evidence

Question 9

What is the ORQ method used for?

Answer 9

analyzing primary evidence

Question 10

What does the O (ORQ) mean

Answer 10

OBSERVE
-describe what you see

Question 11

What does the Q (ORQ) mean

Answer 11

QUESTION
-what do you wonder, 5 Ws, etc.

Question 12

What does the R (ORQ) mean

Answer 12

REFLECT
-hypothesis, what’s the larger story

Question 13

What can we learn/take away from primary sources?

Answer 13

-Enhances learning of life in the past
-Make inferences about

Question 14

Fact

Answer 14

evidence that has occurred

Question 15

Inference

Answer 15

An interpretation concluded by reasoning or speculation

Question 16

Thesis

Answer 16

A statement that explains how or why events happen

Question 17

What are the 6 historical thinking concepts

Answer 17

-Primary source evidence
-Historical significance
-Continuity and change
-Cause and consequence
-Historical perspective
-Understand moral and ethical dimensions

Question 18

Summary of primary source evidence

Answer 18

-consider period, context, events
-make inference about
-furthers our understanding of past

Question 19

Summary of historical thinking

Answer 19

-results in change
-revealing
-varies over time
-constructed through a narrative

Question 20

Summary of continuity and change

Answer 20

-what’s changed vs the same
-asses degree of period has changed

Question 21

Summary of cause and consequence

Answer 21

-How does it influence the future
-short and long term causes
-what resulted from

Question 22

Historical perspective

Answer 22

-Analyze the differences how and why people of past societies acted
-Historical context, intentions, and what influenced

Question 23

What can result from historical perspective

Answer 23

Presentism: when we take our own ideas and apply them on people of past

Question 24

Understanding moral and ethical dimensions

Answer 24

learn from the past that helps shape moral issues today