Historical Thinking Skills
When you are annotating the text and picking out the main ideas of the text, you are using this skill...as you read.
Close Reading
This was the first of the many taxes placed on the colonists after the French and Indian War. Oh no, I guess I'll have to just settle for milk in my tea.
Sugar Act
This phrase was used to describe when slaves were loaded on ships close together and had little room to move.
Tight-packing
This colonial region is cold and has forests and mountains. It's economy was focused on shipbuilding, forestry, and fishing.
The New England Region
This was the first successful English settlement in the New World. Founded in 1607.
Jamestown
If you are putting a document in a broader time and place to understand where it fits into history, you are using this skill.
Contextualization
This boycott was headed by the Daughters of Liberty and was focused on sewing clothes in the colonies so they would not have to buy from the British.
Homespun Movement
This is the name of the sea route used to transport slaves from Africa to the Americas. Over 2 million people died along this route.
The Middle Passage
The Southern Region imported the most slaves of all of the regions. They had slaves work on plantations to harvest cash crops like cotton, indigo, sugarcane, and...what else?
Tobacco
This Native American chief sides with the French in the French and Indian War and then started a rebellion against the British after the war.
Pontiac
When you compare and contrast documents from one another you are using this skill.
Corroboration
The Patriots gained help from multiple countries during the American Revolution, including France. What was the name of the French general who helped train and lead troops in the Revolution?
Lafayette
There were 3 types of slave auctions. Public, private, and this type which took place right on the boats or docks.
Scramble
The Middle Colonies include the colonies of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and this other colony.
Delaware
This was the name of the area which both the French and British wanted control of and caused the French and Indian War.
Ohio River Valley
When you examine the title, author, and date published of a document, you are using this historical thinking skill.
Sourcing
The British offered this to slaves who chose to fight against the Patriots in the American Revolution...the vocabulary word for this.
Manumission
These two goods were the main products that Europeans would trade Africans in exchange for slaves. Arg.
Rum and guns
This was the first legislative body in the British colonies. It was formed in Virginia and made laws for the colony...as long as the governor approved.
The House of Burgesses
This law was put in place by the British to prevent any further conflict between colonists and natives by restricting colonists from moving on to native lands to the west.
Proclamation of 1763
In the acronym we use to analyze political cartoons and images, what does the last letter stand for?
SCAMS, Symbols
The Boston Massacre and Boston Tea Party triggered the British to pass this series of laws to punish the colonists. These laws went by two names and included things like allowing soldiers to live in colonists' homes and shutting down the port in Boston.
The Intolerable Acts, or Coercive Acts
This was the name of the slave ship that was put on trial for murdering hundreds of slaves by throwing them overboard to avoid disease and starvation. The captain and crew were found innocent, but abolitionists used this ship's story as a way to show the horrors of the slave trade.
The Zong
This word describes the scam of the British buying raw materials from the colonists for cheap and selling back the finished goods at higher prices.
Mercantilism
The Declaration of Independence says that all people are entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. All of these are what?
Hint: you are born with them
Natural Rights