Understanding Historical Timelines
A worksheet for 7th graders to practice reading, interpreting, and creating historical timelines.
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Understanding Historical Timelines
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Read each question carefully and follow the instructions to demonstrate your understanding of historical timelines.
Analyze the following timeline and answer the questions below.
1. What event happened in 1776?
2. How many years passed between the Battle of Yorktown and the Treaty of Paris?
3. Which of the following events occurred AFTER the Constitutional Convention?
Declaration of Independence
Battle of Yorktown
Treaty of Paris
Ratification of the US Constitution
4. A historical timeline helps us understand the order of events.
5. Events on a timeline are usually arranged from to .
6. Timelines can only show political events, not social or economic ones.
True
False
7. Why is it important to study history using timelines?
8. Number the following events in the order they occurred (1 being the earliest, 4 being the latest).
Invention of the printing press
Fall of the Roman Empire
Moon landing
Discovery of America by Columbus