2025 Historical Thinking Skills Flashcard

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Which historical thinking skill do the following questions most closely relate to: Who created it? From what perspective or point of view? When was it written? Why was it written? Is it reliable?

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Sourcing

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The following questions represent which Historical Thinking skill? When and where was the document created? What was different then? What was the same? How might the circumstances in which the document was created affect its content?

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Contextualization

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The following questions represent which Historical Thinking skill? What do other documents say? Do the documents agree? If not, why? What are other possible documents? What documents are most reliable?

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Corroboration

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The following questions represent which Historical Thinking Skill? What claims does the author make? What evidence does the author use? What language (words, phrases, images, symbols) does the author use to persuade the document’s audience? How does the document’s language indicate the author’s perspective?

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Close Reading

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Perspective

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point of view

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The textbook, newspaper, eyewitness and photo are all good _____________ when you want to get information.

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Sources

Front

The same accident looked different to the three witnesses because they each had a different ____________ of the accident.

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Perspective

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bias

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one-sided; unfair favoritism

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What should you do when you contextualize sources when researching an historical event?

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Determine when and where the document was created.

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A biography about Abraham Lincoln

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Secondary Source