Historical Thinking SKills
Which HTS is best to use when wanting to understand the author’s feelings/biases toward the topic?
What is Close Reading?
The time period after the Civil War where African Americans integrated into society.
What is Reconstruction?
Name the term that describes the following: A single board of trustees that control multiple corporations.
Trusts
The first major wave of immigration to the United States in the early 1900s primarily came from these two regions of the world
Europe Asia
Completed in 1869, this major infrastructure project connected the East and West coasts by rail.
Transcontinental Railroad
Which HTS is best to use when you have many sources and are trying to find the common denominator amongst them all?
Answer: What is Corroboration?
They were a social group in the south that were deemed as traitors and mischievous.
What are Scalawags?
Name 3 resources that Big Business corporations monopolized.
Can include: Sugar, coal, copper, salt.
This island off of California served as the main processing center for immigrants arriving in the United States
Angel Island
This 2,000-mile trail was a primary route for pioneers traveling west to Oregon in the 1840s and 1850s.
Oregon Trail
When putting a citation into MLA format, which HTS can be translated into how the citation is done?
Answer: What is Sourcing?
Which Amendment: Provided every born in the US citizenship?
14th
What is the group of journalists who were trying to expose Big Business
Muckraker
This test at Ellis Island helped determine how fit or healthy immigrants were
walking up the steps
This law allowed citizens and intended citizens to claim 160 acres of government land
Homestead Act
Georgia and Dakota got into a fight on the playground. A teacher who was on recess duty witnessed it and took them both to the main office. Both of them said their side of the story to the principal's office. Both of their stories had a common idea, but they still had very opposing viewpoints. Therefore, the teacher called in different people who witnessed the fight. The students selected consisted of friends/acquaintances of either Dakota and Georgia, as well as students who are not close with either of the girls. The principal began to compare what each student said to form a conclusion. Which HTS did the principal use?\
Answer: What is Corroboration?
List one president that was involved in Reconstruction
Rutheford B Hayes, Ulysses S Grant
This Captain of Industry/ Robber Baron controlled the oil industry
John Rockefeller
Which act under the Chinese Exclusion Act denied citizenship to Wong Chin Foo and Wong Kim Ark?
The 1888 Scott Act
This 1830 law led to the forced relocation of thousands of Native Americans to lands west of the Mississippi River, creating many of the reservations still in existence today
Indian Removal Act
Tammy Wright (not accurate) conducted her speech during the memorial service of President JFK on November 28, 1963. She was an Irish American born in the time period of 1932. During this time period, racial injustice against African Americans was at an all time high. Wright was the daughter of two immigrants who later became civil rights activists. Unfortunately, her parents were killed by the KKK due to the fact that they aided in the civil rights movement and were seen as “traitors”. This compelled Wright to speak at the late president’s service in order to bring awareness to the killings of White civil rights activists and people who were in support of this movement. Which of the Historical Thinking Skills was used?
Answer: What is Contextualization?
What year the 15th amendment ratified?
1870
What government regulation did Big Business thrive under?
Laissez-faire/free market economy
Who was the "Father of the American Cartoon” who depicted the Wyoming Massacre using satire?
Thomas Nast
This 1862 act provided federal land to states to establish colleges focused on agriculture, engineering, and military training, laying the foundation for the land-grant university system.
Morrill Act