Connecting with the Past
Unit Review Sheet
These facts and definitions should be mastered throughout this unit. This page can be used for periodic review and study as you are finishing the unit and in the future.
Facts and Definitions
Lesson 1: Studying History
- Decade: 10 years
- Century: 100 years
- Pre- means "before" (for example, "prehistoric")
- Recent: having occurred not long before
- Past: a time before now
- Present: the time happening now
- Future: a time that will happen later
- Historic: something that occurred in the past and has great and lasting importance
- Chronological order: the arrangement of events in time in the order in which they happened.
- Primary sources are original records produced by people who participated in or witnessed a historic event firsthand.
- Primary sources can include audio or video recordings, photographs, objects (from the time/place), or texts (letters, diaries, original documents).
- Secondary sources are texts or works created by someone who used one or more primary sources to get their information.
- A timeline is a visual way to demonstrate events that happened in the past.
Lesson 2: Colonization and the Revolution
- An ancestor is someone who lived in the past and whom we can trace back to as being a great, great, great grandfather or grandmother.
- A descendant is someone born after an ancestor.
- American Indians (also referred to as Native Americans) were the first people to live in what we now call the United States.
- The colonists were the first people from England to come to live in what we now call the United States.
Lesson 3: Slavery and the Civil War
- Slavery is when a person "owns" another human and that human does not have his or her freedom.
- Freedom is when a person can act, speak, and think without fear of punishment.
- The people who wanted to free the slaves were called abolitionists.
Lesson 4: Immigration
- An immigrant is a person who comes to a country to live permanently.
Lesson 5: Civil Rights
- Racism means treating people differently because of their race.
- Segregation was the practice of making people of different races use separate facilities or sit in separate sections (of a bus, theatre, restaurant, etc.).
Final Project: Preparing Projects
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