Historical Skills Vocab Review

Question 1

What is needed before you can have an argument?

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Evidence

Question 2

Situating a piece of evidence in a time and place and weighing the influence of those factors on its creation is?

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Contextualization

Question 3

Making a claim about the past and supports it with evidence from primary sources is?

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Historical Argument

Question 4

An understanding of a situation or event only after it has happened or developed is?

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Hindsight

Question 5

An intentionally produced portrayal of the past is?

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Historical Account

Question 6

Imagining the way people in the past saw and thought about the things going on around them is?

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Historical Perspective Taking

Question 7

Questions historians use to uncover who wrote a document as well as the circumstances of its creation.

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Sourcing

Question 8

We should eliminate all biased sources when we are trying to figure out what happened in the past. True or False

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False

Question 9

An assessment of the extent to which a piece of evidence is trustworthy is?

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Reliability

Question 10

A person’s point of view or relationship to an event is?

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Perspective

Question 11

Which of the following can be described as sources in conversations with one another?

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Corroboration

Question 12

Which of the following can be described as something that gives proof or leads to conclusion?

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Evidence

Question 13

An intentional use of language to present a clearly one-sided description of the event or person is?

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Bias

Question 14

Comparing details across multiple sources to determine points of agreement and disagreement.

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Corroboration

Question 15

Imagining how another person sees things is?

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Perspective Taking

Question 16

A statement saying that something happened is?

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Claim

Question 17

The ability to understand the decisions and actions of historical figures based upon context, values and priorities is?

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Historical Empathy

Question 18

The process of assembling primary source evidence and analysis into a coherent story or argument.

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Historical Interpretation

Question 19

Which term can be described as having the ability to make consequential decisions that affect historical events?

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Agency

Question 20

Reading and thinking about specific choices the creator of a source has made.

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Close Reading

Questions 20