Trivia
In the Analysing Evidence / Sources exam what is the first thing to do?
Read the introduction OR look at the questions.
This type of evidence is said to occur at the time. An eye-witness account would be a good example.
Primary Evidence or Primary Source
This concept refers to the different viewpoints, attitudes, or lenses through which historical actors and modern historians understand events.
Perspectives
This pair of concepts examine the long or short-term factors that spark an event and the subsequent consequences that followed.
Cause and Effect
The dates for Prohibition
1920-1933
True
This type of evidence or source is produced after an event, looking back. A good example would be a school textbook.
This pair of concepts measure how trustworthy a source is and how helpful it is for answering a specific historical question.
Reliability and Usefulness
This distinction separates precise, narrow historical data from broad, sweeping trends or overviews across eras.
Specific and General
Two triggers of Prohibition
1913 Income Tax and entry into the WW1 in 1917
In the Analysing evidence / sources exam you don't need to bring a highlighter or coloured pencil. Is this statement true or false?
False
This process involves comparing multiple sources to see where they agree, disagree, or corroborate each other's claims.
Cross Referencing
These terms describes leaning in one direction to distort the truth, or describes information that is one-sided and often exaggerated to influence an audience.
Bias or Propaganda
This pair of concepts describes what an historical character aimed to achieve and the underlying reasons or driving forces behind their actions.
Intent and Motivation
Temperance
This type of history is about conducting recorded interviews to capture the firsthand memories and perspectives of people who witnessed historical events
Oral history
This essential skill involves investigating a source's author, purpose, audience, and date of creation before analyzing its actual content.
Sourcing
This concept requires historians to understand an era on its own terms while recognizing how current values shape our interpretation of history.
past and present
This concept states that historical outcomes depend on prior conditions and chance, meaning nothing in history was absolutely inevitable.
Contingency
Name an historian who is an expert on Prohibition
Michael Lerner, Daniel Okrent or Catherine Murdoch
The study of how 'History' is written.
Historiography
What we call it when an historian judges past actions and historical characters strictly by modern moral standards and values.
Presentism
This pair of concepts analyses what remained the same and what altered over a specific period of time.
Continuity and Change
This concept assesses the size of impact an event had on its time and its lasting importance to subsequent generations.
The most signficant cause of Prohibition and the person we associate with this cause
Anti Saloon League and Wayne Wheeler