Historical Thinking Skills Worksheet
A Grade 11 Social Studies worksheet focusing on key historical thinking concepts such as primary/secondary sources, causation, historical perspective, and evidence.
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. This worksheet assesses your understanding of key historical thinking skills.
1. Which of the following best describes a primary source?
A textbook chapter summarizing a historical event.
An artifact or document created during the period under study.
A documentary film about ancient civilizations.
A journal article analyzing historical interpretations.
2. When historians consider the perspective of individuals living in the past, they are engaging in:
Presentism
Historical empathy
Anachronism
Bias identification
3. The careful evaluation of a source's credibility, author's purpose, and potential biases is known as .
4. Historians use and to construct narratives and arguments about the past.
5. A historian's personal background and experiences can influence their interpretation of historical events.
True
False
6. Correlation always implies causation in historical analysis.
True
False
7. Briefly explain the difference between a primary source and a secondary source, providing an example of each related to the American Civil War.
Examine the image below, which depicts a historical document. Based on your understanding of historical thinking, answer the following questions:
8. What kind of source is this (primary or secondary)? Justify your answer.
9. What information can historians directly infer from this document? What are its potential limitations as a source?