Reading Like a Historian
These are the question you would ask when practicing this historical skill:
-who wrote a document?
-what is their perspective?
-when/where/why was it written?
-is it reliable?
What is sourcing?
the first parliamentary tax on the colonists
What is the Stamp Act?
(will also accept sugar/quartering)
These people fought against the British for the independence of the American colonies.
Who are Patriots?
This document is the blue print of the American Government
What is the Constitution?
America chose to stay neutral in a fight between these two countries
What is England + France?
This patriot rode 40 miles on horseback to warn militias the British were coming
Who is Sybil Ludington?
supporting something with evidence from multiple sources
what is corroboration?
This war drove out the French from North America
these people fought along side of or supported the British during the American Revolution
Who are the Loyalists?
This letter to England was primarily a list of grievances about their treatment
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This foreign revolution divided Americans over whether or not they should help
What is the French Revolution?
This group lead violent protests against the taxes placed on the Colonists
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
reading for information, annotating, finding thesis/main idea
what is close reading?
England expected colonial cooperation with its economic policies + empire wars in exchange for this.
What is Salutary Neglect?
This general first started in the French + Indian war and ended up being integral to the success of the Patriots in the American Revolution
Who is George Washington?
These are the first 10 amendments to the Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights?
What is the Battle of Fallen Timbers?
This event was started with a snowball fight.
What is the Boston Massacre?
the conditions in which something was produced. asks when and where something was produced and how it impacts the document
what is contextualization?
these acts were passed to punish colonial rebellion
What are the coercive/intolerable acts?
These two countries allied with the Patriots to defeat England
Who are France + Spain?
This compromise adjusted how enslaved people were counted to benefit southern representation in the house of representatives.
What is the 3/5s Compromise?
The British gave up their forts on American soil, but they kept most of their restrictions on American ships in this treaty
What is the Jay Treaty (1794)?
This French general was integral to the Patriots success in the American Revolution
Who is Marquis de Lafayette?
These are the FOUR main historical thinking skills
1) Sourcing
2) Contextualization
3) Corroboration
4) Close Reading
The two objectives of this meeting was to assume responsibility of the war + army AND write the olive branch petition
What is the Second Continental Congress?
This document granted generous borders to the American colonies + officially gave America independence from Britian
What is the Treaty of Paris?
These two groups disagreed over the ratification of the Constitution
What are Federalists v. Anti-Federalists
This treaty guaranteed Americans free shipping rights on the Mississippi River and access to New Orleans.
What is Pinckney's Treaty?
this book by Thomas Paine strongly influenced the writing of the Declaration of Independence
What is Common Sense?