Thinking Like a Historian
This is the study of the human past using evidence (specifically after writing was invented).
What is history?
These are the three major regions of North Carolina we studied in this unit.
What are the Coastal Plain, Piedmont, and Mountains?
The movement of people from one place to another.
What is migration?
Conflicts over this particular (general) resource caused many disagreements between Native Americans and European colonists.
What is land?
Before written history, historians rely heavily on physical evidence and other evidence to learn about this period.
What is pre-history?
An original piece of evidence from the time being studied, such as a diary, photograph, letter, or artifact.
What is a primary source?
This NC region is generally low in elevation, has fertile soil, and has access to the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Coastal Plain?
A factor that makes people want to leave their current home.
What is a push factor?
Religion, language, gender roles, and dress are different types of this idea that Europeans and Native Americans disagreed about.
What is culture?
People who move into a new country are described with this verb.
What is immigrate?
A source created later that explains, interprets, or analyzes historical events.
What is a secondary source?
This NC region lies between the other two regions and includes many rolling hills, good farmland, and red clay.
What is the Piedmont?
A factor that attracts people toward a new place.
What is a pull factor?
This North Carolina conflict is used as the unit's local example of early colonial conflict.
What is the Tuscarora War?
People who leave their country to live somewhere else are described with this verb.
What is emigrate?
The way a person’s experiences, background, or position can influence how they understand an event.
What is perspective?
This NC region has high elevation, experiences colder weather than the other regions, and contains lots of wildlife and forests.
What are the Mountains?
Moving because you choose to is this type of migration.
What is voluntary migration?
When studying a conflict, historians can compare sources from different groups to see how their experiences and descriptions differ. This helps reveal differences in this.
What is perspective?
When deciding where to settle, people might look for fertile land, water, transportation routes, and these useful materials found in nature.
What are natural resources?
When a source presents information in a way that favors one side or point of view, historians should consider this.
This boundary between the Piedmont and Coastal Plain regions has many waterfalls and stops river travel west.
What is the fall line?
Having to move against your will, like enslaved Africans coming to the Americas.
What is forced migration?
A historian studying the Tuscarora War might organize information by identifying what happened first and then what happened because of it. This is a ______-______-______ relationship
What is cause-and-effect?
This term refers to the original peoples of a region (not Native).
What is Indigenous?