Civic Online Reasoning
Thinking Historically
Research Skills
Government
Columbian Exchange
Transatlantic Slave Trade
100
When people share incorrect information online on purpose, it is called...
disinformation
100
Historians use this concept to understand why some things stay the same and others change.
What is continuity and change?
100
Immediate, first-hand accounts of a topic, from people who had a direct connection with it
What is a primary source?
100
How many senators does each state have?
What is two?
100
Which European Explorer is credited with beginning the Columbian Exchange and what country is he originally from? You need both to get full credit.
Christopher Columbus from Italy.
100
What continents/regions were involved in the infamous triangular trade route?
What is Europe -> Africa -> Americas?
200
It is a good idea to start lateral reading or corroborating a source by using this free online encyclopedia find out who is behind the information.
Wikipedia
200
Because of this people may see and interpret the same event in different ways.
What are multiple perspectives?
200
information that was created later by someone who did not experience first-hand or participate in the events
What is a secondary source?
200
How many House of Representatives Reps are there in all?
What is 435?
200
These indigenous people were first encountered by Columbus on his first voyage, leading to the beginning of the Columbian Exchange. Some of their decedents live in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic today.
Taino or Arawaks
200
Which European nation played the first leading role in the transatlantic slave trade?
What is Portugal?
300
What are THE three questions you should ask when evaluating information online?
Who is behind the information?
What is the evidence?
What do other sources say?
300
Major changes in history that mark the beginning of major historical time periods.
What are turning points?
300
to restate someone else's ideas in your own language at roughly the same level of detail.
What is to paraphrase?
300
Democrats and Republicans are represented by these colors?
What is blue and red?
300
What are three domesticated animals introduced to the Americas as a result of the Columbian Exchange.
What are horses, pigs, cattle, and chickens
300
How many enslaved were forcibly taken from West Africa to the Americas during the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
What is 10-12 million?
400
When you leave a website to find out more information about it, what strategy are you using?
lateral reading
400
Historians call this an event that is very important. Something is really important if it resulted in change, shows something about many people who lived during a time period, and occupies an important place in the historical narrative. It is two words and the first letters of the words are "h" and "s"
What is historically significant?
400
to reduce the most essential points of someone else's work into a shorter form
What is to summarize?
400
How long is the term for a member of Congress in the House of Representatives and the Senate?
What is two years and six years?
400
These two staple crops from the Americas transformed agricultural practices in Europe during the Columbian Exchange.
What is potatoes or maize?
400
What year did the transatlantic slave trade officially end in the United States? Did it continue illegally after that?
What is 1808? What is YES
500
University of Connecticut professor Michael Lynch calls the internet "both the world’s best fact checker and the world’s best bias confirmer—often at the same time." How is that possible?
Fact checker b/c we use it for things like lateral reading to determine reliability.
Bias confirmer b/c the internet confirms what we already have a bias for. It makes us more entrenched in our beliefs.
500
What are the sources historians use to understand the past? or "What are sources?"
500
the process of recording information from different sources and then recording the essence of the information.
What is note taking?
500
Which branch of government makes the laws and provides the money for the government to function?
What is the legislative branch or what is Congress?
500
These two environmental impacts resulted from the introduction of European livestock to the Americas during the Columbian Exchange. We read about them in the excerpts from Charles Mann.
The impacts included changes in ecosystems due to overgrazing and the displacement of native species.
500
The cultivation of sugar impacted the transatlantic slave trade and European economies in many ways. Name two.
What is the demand of labor and enriched European economies?