Historical Thinking Skills
This type of source would include World War I soldier letters and speeches, and is valued for direct evidence.
What is a primary source?
This document introduced the idea of unalienable rights like life and liberty.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This part of history was known for its shift from farming to people working in factories.
What is industrialization?
This 1941 attack led the U.S. to enter WWII.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
This 1964 law outlawed segregation in public places.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
A historian questions bias by asking these two key questions about any document.
What are “Who created it?” and “Why was it created?”
This 1787 law banned slavery in new western territories and promoted public education.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
Workers formed this organization, led by skilled laborers, to improve wages and conditions.
What is the American Federation of Labor?
The U.S. goal during the Cold War to stop communism was known as this policy.
What is containment?
This Supreme Court case ended school segregation.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
If a textbook explains causes of the Great Depression, it is classified as this type of source.
What is a secondary source?
The debate between Federalists and Anti-Federalists directly led to the creation of this.
What are the Bill of Rights?
This Supreme Court case justified segregation under “separate but equal.”
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
This program gave economic aid to rebuild Europe after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
The migration of African Americans north for jobs and opportunity is called this.
What is the Great Migration?
A strong thesis must include a claim AND this supporting component to be historically valid.
What is evidence?
This document created the federal system of checks and balances.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
Immigrants in the late 1800s and early 1900s arrived mostly from where?
What are Southern and Eastern Europe?
This war caused major protests at home and challenged trust in government.
What is the Vietnam War?
This event in 2001 led to wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
What are the 9/11 attacks?
Distinguishing between the 1929 crash and long-term bank weaknesses is an example of analyzing this historical thinking concept.
What is short-term vs. long-term causes?
Name the unalienable rights listed in the Declaration of Independence.
What are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness?
What act led to providing safer food and including ingredients and labels on food?
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
The collapse of this nation in 1991 officially ended the Cold War.
What is the Soviet Union?
Passed after the September 11 attacks, this law expanded government surveillance powers in the name of national security, sparking debate over civil liberties.
What is the U.S. Patriot Act?