Historical Concepts: Cause and Effect

Question 1

What is the immediate cause of the Arab Spring?

Accepted Answer

The self-immolation of Mohammed Bouazizi.

Question 2

Primary sources are sources that come from the time being investigated. They are eyewitness accounts of the past.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 3

A photograph cannot be considered a source of history.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 4

What are sources of history?

Accepted Answer

Items left behind by the past that provide information about the past.

Question 5

Why is it important for historians to study the factors that caused an event?

Accepted Answer

To understand the event.

Question 6

What is an example of an event triggered by a cause?

Accepted Answer

The Arab Spring.

Question 7

History is based on sources and evidence.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 8

An online biography can be a source of history.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 9

A letter from the past cannot be considered a source of history.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 10

Primary sources are more reliable than secondary sources.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 11

What is the relationship between cause and effect?

Accepted Answer

Every significant event or change is triggered by at least one cause.

Question 12

What is the first task of a historian when trying to understand an event?

Accepted Answer

Identify and study the factors that caused it.

Question 13

A gravestone can be considered a source of history.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 14

What is the first task of a historian when trying to understand an event?

Accepted Answer

Identify and study the factors that caused it.

Question 15

Primary sources include textbooks and documentaries.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 16

Sources can only be objects from the past.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 17

What is the significance of identifying the factors that caused an event?

Accepted Answer

It helps historians understand the event.

Question 18

A film about an individual from the past cannot be considered a source of history.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 19

What is an example of an event that was triggered by a cause?

Accepted Answer

The self-immolation of Mohammed Bouazizi led to the Arab Spring.

Question 20

Secondary sources are sources produced during the time being investigated.

Accepted Answer

False

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