Change Over Time
This program expanded the federal government's role in responding to the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
A photograph taken during the Great Depression is this type of historical source.
What is a primary source?
This term describes a person's point of view that can shape how they interpret a historical event.
What is perspective?
This movement produced major social and political changes by challenging racial segregation and discrimination.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
Historians consider who created a source, when it was created, and what was happening at the time to understand this.
What is historical context?
During World War II, members of this group would have had a very different perspective on the U.S. government's wartime policies because many were forcibly relocated and incarcerated.
Who were Japanese Americans?
The New Deal and Great Society can be connected because both increased the involvement of this institution in addressing social and economic problems.
What is the federal government?
Historians compare multiple sources because one source may not provide this—the complete account of an event.
What is the whole story?
When historians recognize what a source can and cannot tell them, they are considering these weaknesses or boundaries of the source.
What are limitations?