Thursday: Causation & Historical Analysis

Learn to identify causes and effects in history, then put all five skills together analyzing Renaissance sources.

Lesson Details

Time

60 min

Activities

9 items

Reading

12 sections

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Essential Question

How do historians identify causes and effects in history, and how can we use all five skills together to fully analyze a primary source?

Learning Objectives

By the end of this lesson, you will be able to: • Distinguish between immediate and long-term causes • Identify unintended consequences of historical events • Recognize the difference between correlation and causation • Apply all five historical thinking skills to analyze a primary source

Key Vocabulary

Causation: The relationship between cause and effect; what made something happen Immediate cause: The direct trigger of an event (the spark that lights the fire) Long-term cause: Underlying conditions that made an event possible (the fuel that the spark ignites) Unintended consequence: An outcome that was not expected or planned by the people involved Correlation: When two things happen together, but one does not necessarily cause the other Renaissance: French for "rebirth"; a cultural movement from roughly 1350-1600 that renewed interest in classical Greek and Roman ideas

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