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Eras
D: Distinct periods of history, characterized by particular events, developments, or themes.
E: The Renaissance era was known for a rebirth in art and learning.
Causes and Effects
D: The reasons why something happened (causes) and what happened as a result (effects).
E: The cause of the American Revolution was taxation without representation; an effect was the creation of a new nation.
Primary Source
D: An original document or object created at the time being studied.
E: A soldier’s diary from World War II is a primary source.
Secondary Source
D: A work that interprets or analyzes primary sources.
E: A textbook chapter about World War II is a secondary source.
Close Reading
D: Carefully analyzing a text to understand its meaning and details.
E: Reading a historical speech word-for-word to find the speakers message.
Contextualizing
D: Placing a historical even or source in its time and place to better understand it.
E: Understanding slavery by considering the social and economic systems of the 1800s.
Corroboration
D: Comparing multiple sources to see if they agree on facts or details.
E: Checking two eyewitnesses accounts to confirm what happened in a battle.
Frame of Reference
D: A person’s background, beliefs, and experiences that affect how they see events.
E: A historian from one country may view a war differently than someone from another country.
Historical Context
D: The social, political, cultural, and economic background of a time period.
E: The Great Depression’s historical context includes widespread poverty and
unemployment.
Point of View
D: The perspective or attitude of someone regarding an event or topic.
E: A king’s point of view on a rebellion might be different from the rebels’.
Sourcing
D: Identifying who created a document, when, where, and why to evaluate its
trustworthiness.
E: Knowing a letter was written by a government official during a war helps assess its
reliability.
Agrarian
D: Related to farming or rural life.
E: An agrarian society depends mostly on agriculture for its economy, like early
American colonies.
Cash Crop
D: A crop grown to be sold for profit rather than for personal use.
E: Tobacco was a major cash crop in colonial Virginia.
Charter
D: A legal document granting rights or privileges, often to establish a colony or company.
E: The Virginia Company received a charter from King James I to establish
Jamestown.
Colonization
D: The process of settling and establishing control over indigenous lands by a foreign
power.
E: The British colonization of North America in the 1600s.
Exploration
D: Traveling to new places to discover and learn about them.
E: Christopher Columbus’s voyages to the Americas.
Harbors
D: Sheltered places along a coast where ships can safely dock.
E: Boston Harbor was important for trade and shipping in colonial New England.
Mercantilism
D: An economic theory where colonies provide raw materials to the mother country and
serve as markets for finished goods.
E: The British enforced mercantilist policies on their American colonies.
Migration
D: Movement of people from one place to another to settle temporarily or permanently.
E: Pilgrims migrating from England to the New World.
Plantations
D: Large farms that grow cash crops, often using enslaved or hired labor.
E: Southern colonies had plantations growing cotton and tobacco.
Social Contract
D: An agreement among people to form a government and follow its rules for protection
and order.
E: The Mayflower Compact signed by Pilgrims.
Subsistence Farming
D: Farming focused on growing enough food to feed the farmer’s family, with little surplus.
E: Many families in New England practiced subsistence farming.
Region
D: An area defined by common characteristics like geography, climate, or culture.
E: The Southern Colonies formed a distinct region with warm climate and
plantation economy.
Representative Government
D: A system where people elect officials to make laws and decisions on their behalf.
E: The Virginia House of Burgesses was an early form of representative
government in America.