"Why Study History" Review

What is a primary source?

• A document or other record of past events created by people who were present at the time

• Information written after the time period by an expert or historian

• The sequence of events in time

• Information that can be used to prove a statement or support a conclusion

Which of the following is an example of an artifact? (Choose all 3 answers!!)

• A vase from ancient Greece

• A Smartphone

• Miss Hickey (this one's for you, Carter)

• A stone tablet

Which of the following is an example of a secondary source?

• A letter written by Abraham Lincoln to his wife.

• A history textbook written by an expert historian.

• A newspaper article from the 1776 about the Declaration of Independence.

• A magazine from the 1940s with a photo of Jackie Robinson.

Which vocabulary term best matches the picture?

• point of view

• evidence

• chronology

• era

Which vocabulary term best matches the picture?

• bias

• artifact

• evidence

• point of view

Which vocabulary term best matches the picture?

• chronology

• bias

• point of view

• secondary source

Which vocabulary term best matches the picture?

• chronology

• evidence

• era

• primary source

Which vocabulary term best matches the picture?

• secondary source

• primary source

• bias

• chronology

Are primary sources better than secondary sources? (3 answers!)

• Both of them are important resources.

• Primary sources give us better insight into how people in the past lived.

• Secondary sources give us more information and context.

• Primary sources are always better than secondary sources.

Which of the following people are qualified to write a secondary source about the Civil War?

• A seven year old student who just watched an animated YouTube video about the Civil War

• An expert on the Civil War who has studied it for years

• Me after reading a single Wikipedia article about the Civil War

• My cousin after reading a historical fiction book about the Civil War