Unit 1 Vocabulary: Thinking like a Historian and Age of Exploration.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Secondary Source

D: A work that interprets or analyzes primary sources.

E: A textbook chapter about World War II is a secondary source.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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’.

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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.

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Agrarian

D: Related to farming or rural life.

E: An agrarian society depends mostly on agriculture for its economy, like early

American colonies.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Exploration

D: Traveling to new places to discover and learn about them.

E: Christopher Columbus’s voyages to the Americas.

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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.

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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.

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Migration

D: Movement of people from one place to another to settle temporarily or permanently.

E: Pilgrims migrating from England to the New World.

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Plantations

D: Large farms that grow cash crops, often using enslaved or hired labor.

E: Southern colonies had plantations growing cotton and tobacco.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.