Sourcing
This is the Level 3 definition for the Sourcing Standard.
What is analyze a historical source’s reliability or agenda.
These are the three parts needed in a fully written CER.
What is Claim, Evidence and Reasoning?
This term describes when one country takes control over another land, settles it and uses its people and resources.
What is Colonialism?
This is the year the Declaration of Independence was signed.
What is 1776?
The system a community or country uses to make, buy, and sell goods and services, and how people use resources and money to meet their needs and wants.
What is Economy?
This type of historical source is a firsthand account or original document created by someone who experienced an event.
What is a primary source?
These are facts, quotes or details from primary or secondary sources that support your claim.
What is writing Evidence?
This term means when a country extends it power over other lands or people for political, economic or military reasons.
What is Imperialism?
As a result of the French and Indian War, a law issued by King George III that prevented colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains, angering many colonists who wanted to expand their territory.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
An economic system where colonies benefit the home country. To get more wealth and power, the “mother” country exploits colonial resources, exports resources back home, and makes products with those resources to sell and trade for a profit.
What is Mercantilism?
This is how to identify bias in a historical source.
What is identifying whether a historical source shows only one point of view (perspective) or includes multiple points of view (perspectives).
This part explains how and why the evidence proves the claim.
What is Reasoning?
These were the three main motivations for European exploration.
What are God, Gold and Glory?
What are the main causes of the colonists wanting independence from Great Britain?
What is debt from the French and Indian War, Taxation without Representation and the Proclamation of 1763.
These laws placed new taxes on imported goods like glass, paint, paper, and tea.
What are the Townshend Acts?
These are the skills required to earn a Level 4 in sourcing.
What is corroborating multiple sources, identifying contradictions, synthesizing events, and creating additional questions to evaluate reliability.
I can develop a thesis statement that directly addresses the question.
What is a Level 3 Claim?
In 1492, Columbus met this Indigenous lands and people.
Who were the Taino?
These are four Enlightenment Ideals that influenced the American Revolution.
I can evaluate how economic systems and activities affect ecosystems over time and vice versa.
What is the Environmental Impact Scale?
Is the Following Source Reliable or Unreliable and Why?
The History of the Dividing Line betwixt Virginia and North Carolina - 1728
Background Context: William Byrd II (1674–1744) was a wealthy English colonist, plantation owner, and government official in colonial Virginia during the early 1700s.
“The Indians are extremely lazy, and will not take the pains to improve their land. They are content to live from hand to mouth, like the wild beasts of the forest. Instead of cultivating the earth, they choose rather to hunt, which makes them wanderers, and consequently gives them no attachment to any particular spot of land.
This is the reason they claim the right of roaming over vast tracts of country, though they make no other use of it than to chase the deer and other game. Thus they leave the land waste and unimproved, which would otherwise be of great benefit to mankind.”
It is unreliable because this source only describes the perspective of William Byrd who has a biased point of view of Native Americans.
Write a full claim for the following prompt.
Did the Age of Exploration have a positive or negative impact on Native Americans?
Ms. Hannah and Ms. Sacoh will decide.
This 1513 document claimed Spain had a god given right to conquer Indigenous lands and people.
What is El Requerimiento?
Explain how the Enlightenment Ideals are reflected in the Declaration of Independence.
Ms, Hannah and Ms. Sacoh will decide.
Explain one way the environment of the three colonial regions impacted its economic activities.
Ms. Hannah and Ms. Sacoh will decide.