Vocab
By examining characteristics such as gender, age, ethnicity, or race, historians study
Population
An established sequence of events is called a
Chronology
Throughout U.S. history, the nation’s government and leaders have used their power to
Any of these answers is correct:
Gain independence from Great Britain.
Remove Indigenous people from their land.
Improve the lives of citizens.
All leaders in history have abused their power.
False. Leaders have used their power in different ways.
The human sense that ideas and actions are good or bad.
Morality
Laws and regulations that determine how problems can be solved in response to social issues are called
Public Policy
What occurred as technology and transportation developed?
A. The number of factories decreased.
B. Worlds of exchange expanded.
C. Spirituality and morality increased.
D. Science became less important.
B. Worlds of exchange expanded.
Andrew Carnegie used his money to help the public.
True
A group of characteristics and qualities, such as native language or religious beliefs, that a person uses to describe himself or herself.
Identity
An artifact is an example of what?
Evidence
Patterns of population, uses and abuses of power, and haves and have-nots are examples of
Key themes in history
The women’s rights movement of the 19th and 20th centuries represented a shift in the spiritual life of women.
False.
It was an expression of identity.
The study of how populations have changed over time is called
Demography
What are the two main kinds of sources historians use?
Primary and secondary sources
Which best describes the difference between haves and have nots—whether nations, regions, or people?
A difference in resources
Science and technology has reduced the need for worlds of exchange.
FALSE.
It has enabled humans to survive.
What might bias do to a historian's observations?
Distort their observations
The dropping of atomic bombs on Japan in 1945 shows that scientific and technological developments can ____
Be destructive