Primary and Secondary Sources
This term refers to materials produced by people or groups directly involved in the event or topic under consideration, either as participants or as witnesses.
What is a primary source?
This term refers to the quality of being trusted and believed in. For historians, it is important to make sure their sources meet this criteria.
What is credibility?
This is a statement that reflects the conclusion you have reached about your assigned topic after careful analysis of the sources.
What is a thesis statement?
This term refers to events or triggers that directly spark or precipitate the main event. (the straw that broke the camel's back)
What is an immediate cause?
In MLA style, this type of citation is found at the end of the sentence that references a source. It features parenthesis which include the author's name (unless it was mentioned in the sentence) and page number.
What is an in-text citation?
This term refers to texts, such as books, articles, or documentary films, that are written or created by people who were not eyewitnesses to the events or period in question.
What is a secondary source?
This term refers to prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.
What is bias?
True or False: A thesis statement is a statement of fact.
What is false?
This term refers to developments that occur in the years or months leading up to an event and build on long-term trends.
What are short-term causes?
In MLA style, this page at the end of an essay includes full citation information for all of the sources referenced in an essay.
What is a Works Cited page?
DAILY DOUBLE
What is the Declaration of Independence, Photographs, Civil War Miniball, Federalist Papers, Frederick Douglass' memoirs, etc.
When considering the credibility of a source, what should historians check for about the author of the source?
What are the qualifications and reputation of the author?
This is the section of your thesis statement that tells the reader what your topic is about. It answers the “who, what, when, where” questions of your topic.
What is an introduction?
This term refers to deep-rooted factors that develop over an extended period—often decades or centuries—that create the conditions for an event.
What are long-term causes?
In MLA style, this is how the titles of short sources like newspaper articles or website pages are written.
What are in quotation marks?
Examples of this type of source include books and articles written by historians.
What is a secondary source?
How can historians use multiple sources to verify credibility?
What is, they can compare the sources to check for consistency?
This is the section of your thesis statement that includes the stance you have on your project after doing your research. It is the MOST important part of your thesis, and should speak to the historical significance of your topic.
What is an argument?
This term refers to the fact that events in history are typically the result of multiple, interconnected causes rather than a single cause.
What is multiple causality?
In MLA citations, this is how names are abbreviated when there are more than two authors to a single source.
What is et al.?
Examples of this type of source include letters, diaries, photographs, archeological remains, speeches, autobiographies, treaties, and census data.
What is a primary source?
Why are the circumstances in which the author prepared the source important when considering credibility?
This section of your thesis statement introduces your evidence to show where you are going with the rest of the essay. Each piece of evidence should directly support your argument about the historical significance of the topic.
What is a roadmap?
This was one long-term cause of World War I we discussed in class. (multiple possible answers)
What is militarism, alliances, nationalism, or imperialism?
In MLA citations, this is the information you need to include when citing a book.
What is author last name, author first name, title of the book (in italics), publisher, and publication year?