HS final

Question 1

Historiography

Answer 1

the process and method of writing history/ making engaging in conversations with historical arguments/ the analysis of the interpretations of a topic as written by previous historians

Question 2

Critical Race Theory

Answer 2

the idea that US laws and politics are built off of and have racial bias/prejudice engrained into the system; teaching about the history of race/racism in public schools

Question 3

Amatuer History

Answer 3

before 1900s

Question 4

Consensus History

Answer 4

Early 1900s, more requirements for professions were put in place; more people going to university getting degrees

Question 5

new History

Answer 5

Post 1960s

Question 6

Lost Cause Myth

Answer 6

Covered up the fact that the civil war was about slavery to justify confederate deaths

Question 7

WEB DuBois

Answer 7

wrote the book Black Reconstruction; first book of reconstruction written by a black man; ignored until the 70s, 80s, and 90s

Question 8

William Dunning/ Dunning School

Answer 8

Dunning school view- saw Reconstruction as the lowest point in American history (names after William Dunning, a professor at Columbia University and the descendant of slave owners)

Question 9

Historical memory

Answer 9

The idea that history and its truths are controlled by who is in power and is susceptible to change

Question 10

“Birth of a Nation”

Answer 10

Film depicting racist ideas of African Americans and the Ku Klux Klan; first film to be showed in the white house

Question 11

Jim Crow

Answer 11

A theatre character of a racist depiction of African Americans incorporating black face. Also the name of segregation laws against African Americans