Thinking Like a Historian
This process involves dividing time into historical eras for purposes of analysis.
What is periodization?
This country was responsible for founding the majority of what would be later referred to as 'The Thirteen Colonies' and would ultimately become the United States of America.
What is Great Britain?
This individual is largely credited with drafting the U.S. Constitution.
An apt name for the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution. These amendments protect the rights of states and the people.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This general in the War for Independence was the first president of the United States and provided the country with many precedents that have been followed for years out of respect for his legacy such as the title of "Mr. President" and the two term limit.
Who was George Washington?
These are first-hand accounts of an event created by eyewitnesses or first recorders at the time of the event.
What are primary sources?
This country was primarily colonizing more Southern parts of North America along with the Caribbean.
What is Spain?
This event involved colonists, dressed as Native Americans, dumping tea into their city's harbor to protest excessive taxation by the British government.
What was the Boston Tea Party?
This set of governing documents was largely ineffective and gave the early federal government no power to do perform actions such as collecting taxes.
What were the Articles of Confederation?
In 1802, this presidential decision greatly expanded the size of the United States and directly led to the creation of the Lewis and Clarke expedition.
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
This is an opinion or perspective presented by the author of a document which is influenced by the author’s personal circumstances.
What is point-of-view?
This leader of an English colony was the founder of Connecticut and championed expanding suffrage to more members of the community outside of just land-owning, male church members.
Who was Thomas Hooker?
These acts included provisions forcing colonists to house British soldiers, excessive taxes, and various punishments for Boston, Massachusetts such as closing their harbor.
What were the Intolerable Acts?
This group of people opposed the ratification of the U.S. Constitution, stating that it gave the federal government too much power and fearing that the new government would become tyrannical.
Who were the Anti-federalists?
This individual was a primary leader of the Federalist party and was a champion of the creation of the national bank.
Who was Alexander Hamilton?
This is the process of critically examining significant details and language patterns of a text in order to develop a deep understanding of the author’s claims or point of view.
What is close reading?
This was the first permanent English settlement in North America and was named after an English monarch.
What is Jamestown?
This is the name for rights that are not eligible to be taken away by the government, regardless of circumstances.
What are Unalienable Rights?
This compromise was created to resolve arguments about whether enslaved people should be counted towards population for the purposes of representation in the legislature.
What was the Three-Fifths Compromise?
Supported by the newly re-elected Thomas Jefferson, this widely despised act banned all trade with foreign nations and directly contributed to the build-up of tensions that sparked the War of 1812. The later Non-Intercourse Act was an attempt to walk back some of the stringent restrictions this act placed on the people.
What is the Embargo Act?
This is the process of comparing different sources in order to gain a more accurate account of the past, evaluate the validity of a source, and/or consider multiple perspectives.
What is corroboration?
The first successful long-term Spanish Settlement in North America, this colony that is still a city in the United States to this day.
What is St. Augustine?
This Frenchman helped the colonies with the War for Independence by securing support for the war efforts in the form of weaponry and naval support.
Who was Marquis de Lafayette?
What was the Great Compromise?
Called unconstitutional in the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions, these acts forbade citizens from publishing negative content about the government in an effort to suppress opposition to war.
What were the Alien and Sedition Acts?