Unit 1 Social Studies Study Guide_P

when you find evidence from one perspective that supports evidence from another perspective

• corroborate

• context

• primary source

information that helps you better understand evidence

• corroborate

• context

• primary source

Materials written or made by people who lived during historical events and witnessed them

• primary source

• secondary source

Materials written by people who did not participate in an event

• primary source

• secondary source

can be proven as right or wrong

• fact

• opinion

cannot be proven as right or wrong; it is based on a judgment

• fact

• opinion

one-sided perspective

• bias

• confirmation bias

focusing only on the information that confirms what you believe and ignoring information that challenges what you believe

• bias

• confirmation bias

The image uses your feelings about one thing to get you to feel the same way about something else.

• transfer

• card stacking

A passage from the memoir of Thomas Jefferson.

Author: Thomas Jefferson 

Date: July 27, 1821

• primary source

• secondary source