US History key terminomology
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| Anachronism | show 🗑
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| Analysis | show 🗑
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| Assimilation | show 🗑
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| show | How historians explain a particular sequence of historical events, especially with reference to their causes.
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| Chronology | show 🗑
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| Context | show 🗑
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| show | The customs, language, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular people, country, or other community.
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| Empirical | show 🗑
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| show | Available facts/ information which historians use to support their particular understandings/interpretations of history. Comes in many different varieties, including written documents, photographs, works of art, oral traditions, various physical artifacts
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| show | A piece of information about the past generally understood as empirically true, and used as evidence by a historian in support of a conclusion or interpretation. Facts are subject to change if/when more reliable information about them comes to light.
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| Heritage | show 🗑
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| show | The selected study of the past based on the interpretation of empirical evidence grounded in fact.
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| show | A language, dialect, or style of speaking peculiar to a people
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| show | The process by which historians make sense of evidence, and assign meaning to the "facts". The overall explanations which historians give based on their understanding of factual evidence.
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| Metacognition | show 🗑
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| Myth | show 🗑
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| Nativism | show 🗑
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| show | Using the values, opinions, or viewpoints that are specific to one’s present day to understand, evaluate, or critique the actions of people in the past.
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| show | The two basic categories of evidence used by historians to interpret the past.
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| Primary sources | show 🗑
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| Secondary sources | show 🗑
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| show | The careful reading of historical documents, with special attention to the use of reading strategies that help the reader unlock the deeper meanings of the document.
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