Budding Historian Test

Study Guide

 

What is history? __________________________________________________________

 

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What is a historianÕs job/responsibility? Identify at least three different responsibilities of a historian. Record an explanation for the responsibility/job.

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What makes an event significant? Identify three criteria used to determine whether an event is a significant part of this nationÕs history.

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Explain how the Attack on the World Trade Center fits the criteria. Explain why it would be considered a significant part of this nationÕs history.

 

 

 

 

Define primary and secondary source.  

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Explain the differences between primary and secondary sources.

 

 

 

 

Identify the benefits of using eyewitness testimony.

 

 

 

Explain how eyewitness testimony is flawed or limited.

 

 

 

 

 

Explain how your photography autobiography project is a primary source.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Explain how the journal responses about adolescent culture based on the photography autobiography projects are secondary sources.