Historical Thinking
This type of source is a record of an event as they are first described, usually by witnesses or people involved in the event. This can include photos, memoirs, or newspapers from the time of the event.
What is a primary source?
This was the "revolution" where the US started to shift from handmade products to machine-made products in early - late 1800s.
This amendment was passed as a result of the Anti-Saloon League and the Women's Christian Temperance Union's efforts to prohibit alcohol.
What was the 18th amendment?
The United States adopted this type of foreign policy after WWI in order to avoid foreign entanglements that could lead to another war.
What is isolationism? What is isolationist policy?
These two nations were the main "superpowers" involved in the Cold War
Who are the Soviet Union and the United States?
When you find a source, it is important to analyze of their ___________, this determines whether or not they are trustworthy and believable.
What is credibility?
This new technology helped to make factory production much more efficient. Led to mass production.
What is the assembly line?
This amendment was passed in 1920 and gave women in America the right to vote.
What was the 19th Amendment?
This military action by Japan against the US in 1941 was the reason that the United States got involved in WWII.
What was the bombing of Pear Harbor?
The creation and use of these by the United States in two cities in Japan led to the quick end of World War 2.
What are atomic bombs? What are nuclear weapons?
This is a meaningful interpretation and explanation of the past that historians create using evidence. It is a statement that they can support with their evidence.
What is a thesis?
These groups were formed by workers during early 1900s in order to fight for better conditions, pay, and be able to collectively bargain.
What are labor unions?
This artistic and cultural movement based out of New York was a celebration of Black culture. It contributed to social change and increased awareness of struggles of racial intolerance.
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
During the Second World War, factories started to produce these products instead of consumer goods. This change was a part of the process of mobilization for the war.
What are war supplies? What are war materials? Tanks or guns?
Following WWII most Eastern European countries were under Soviet control and had this type of government. The Chinese Revolution in 1949 established this type of government in China.
What is a communist government? What is communism?
What is bias?
Labor unions and organizations would use this form of protest as a form of achieving their goals.
What is a strike? Or boycott?
This plan of President Roosevelt's increased the role of the federal government in the economy and created many organizations to help pull America out of the depression.
What is the New Deal?
People of America had to do this because they were low on supplies such as food, paper, gas, etc.
What is rationing?
The 2nd Red Scare and McCarthyism reflected these in American society.
What are Cold War fears?
These are looked at to explain how one event may have led to another, or how historical events relate to one another.
What are cause-and-effect?
This increased drastically as the need for workers in factories increased. This also led to diffusion of ethnic traits into American culture and a growth of cities.
What is immigration? What is mass immigration?
This was the movement of Black Americans out of the South into the North and the West. This occurred because of jobs opening in the North and also the brutal racism in the South.
What was the Great Migration?
The Neutrality Acts banned the US from selling and transporting arms (weapons) to nations that were at war. This is an example of the foreign policy of .....
What is isolationism? What is isolationist policy?
The House Un-American Activities Committee investigated suspected communism in the media, Hollywood, labor unions, and universities. They would conduct investigations and do this to suspected communists.
What is blacklist? What is blacklisting?