Unit 1 8th Grade Vocab

Artifact

• Material evidence from the past.

• The process of determining what happened that involves posing questions and collecting and analyzing sources to build historical interpretations.

• A report or description of an event from that past that is put together using evidence from multiple sources.

• A particular attitude or way of regarding or seeing something.

Region

• A geographic area that shares at least one common characteristic.

• The use of additional sources to determine the extent to which they support each other.

• Thoughtful, critical analysis of a text that focuses on significant patterns in order to uncover layers of meaning that lead to deep comprehension.

• Having to do with the ability to influence decisions of groups, exercising or seeking power, and authority in the governmental or public affairs.

Evidence

• Facts or information that can be used to test whether a belief or position is true.

• Specific ways in which historians critically read a document that includes sourcing, contextualizing, closely reading, and corroborating.

• An attempt to identify the origin of a particular historical account / artifact by who, why, where and when it was created.

• A geographical area that shares at least one common trait.

Life

• The right to survive and feel safe from threats to your existence.

• A possession such as land and objects, considered by philosophers to be a natural right.

• An agreement between members of a society that individuals willing surrender some of their natural rights in exchange for protection by society in the form of laws.

• A concept used in political philosophy to describe the conditions of what the lives of people might have been like before societies came into existence.

Resource

• A source of supply, support, or aid that is necessary for human survival. A natural feature or phenomenon that enhances the quality of human life.

• A particular attitude or way of regarding or seeing something.

• Material evidence from the past.

• Facts or information that can be used to test whether a belief or position is true or valid.

Contextualizing

• Placing an idea, statement, or event into the environment in which it was created.

• The process of determining what happened that involves posing questions, collecting data, and analyzing sources to build historical interpretations.

• Having to do with the identities, customs, beliefs, lifestyles, and traditions of groups of people.

• Having to do with the use of resources that have value to individuals, and societies, focusing on the production, distribution, and consumption of goods.

Corroborating

• The use of additional sources to determine the extent to which they support each other.

• Thoughtful, critical analysis of a text that focuses on significant details or patterns in order to uncover layers of meaning that lead to deep comprehension.

• Material evidence from the past.

• The right to survive and feel safe from threats to your existence.

Economic

• Having to do with the use of resources that have value to individuals and societies, focusing on the production, distribution, and consumption of goods.

• A geographic area that shares at least one common feature.

• Rules and regulations made by the government.

• An unwritten form of self-government that developed in the late 1500's to govern the Five Indigenous Nations.

Limited Government

• The principle where governmental power is restricted by law, usually in a written constitution.

• The first attempt by English colonists to establish a temporary, legally-binding form of self government.

• An agreement entered into by the English King and rebel barons, protecting the barons from certain actions by the King.

• Having to do with the natural features of an area and how humans interact with those features.

Liberty

• Freedom, the ability to choose without outside interference, considered to be a natural right.

• Political idea that an individual enters into society with certain basic rights.

• The right to survive and feel safe from threats to your existence.

• Rules and regulations made by government.