Geographic Reasoning
What ocean is on the East Coast of the United States?
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
This tells why a document or source was created.
What is its purpose?
The thirteen colonies belonged to this country.
What is Great Britain (England)?
This document declared America's independence.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This belief said the United States was meant to spread across North America.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Canada is located to the ______ of the United States.
What is north?
If a question asks you to identify the author's point of view about a topic in a document, what are you being asked to do.
Identify the author's opinion on that topic.
The thirteen colonies were located along this coast of North America.
What is the East Coast?
Britain placed new taxes on the colonies after this war ended in 1763.
What is the French and Indian War?
The Civil War began after this group of states left the Union. (What did they call their new nation after seceding?)
What is the Confederacy? (or Confederate States)
What ocean is on the West Coast of the United States?
What is the Pacific Ocean?
If a question asks you to identify the intended audience of a document, what are you being asked to do.
Identify the group of people the author wanted to read or hear the message.
Colonists used this body of water to trade goods between the colonies and other countries.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
This event involved colonists dumping tea into Boston Harbor to protest British taxes.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The biggest disagreement between the North and South before the Civil War was whether this should spread into new territories.
What is slavery?
What mountain range runs along the eastern United States?
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
What is the difference between a primary and secondary source?
A primary source is something that was made by a person who was there when the event happened. A secondary source is something written later by someone who studied the event.
Explain how life differed in the Northern (New England) colonies from life in the Southern colonies.
New England focused on trade, fishing, and small farms, while the Southern Colonies relied on plantations and agriculture.
This event happened when British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists in Boston. It is famously memorialized in Paul Revere's famous engraving
The Boston Massacre
Abraham Lincoln issued this proclamation in 1863 that declared enslaved people free in Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
What is the longest river in the United States?
What is the Mississippi River?
If a question asks you to identify the historical context of a document, what are you being asked to do?
Explain what was happening at the time a source was created (the who, what, where, when, how, why)
Name 6 of the original thirteen colonies.
New Hampshire. Massachusetts. Rhode Island. Connecticut. New York. New Jersey. Pennsylvania. Delaware. Maryland. Virginia. North Carolina. South Carolina. Georgia
They taxed the colonists without giving them representation in Parliament, they passed unfair laws
Which state was first to secede from the Union at the start of the Civil War?
South Carolina