Grade 10 History practice

What is on the worksheet

1. What should a conclusion add beyond repeating the introduction word for word?

2. Judging all past choices solely by present expectations risks

   1. establishing exact dates
   2. improving every source automatically
   3. ignoring historical context
   4. proving motive

3. Historical thinking and evidence: which term fits this description? Comparing independent sources to assess where they support or challenge one another.

   1. Consequence
   2. Provenance
   3. Corroboration
   4. Continuity

4. Historical thinking and evidence: which term fits this description? A claim about the past supported by evidence and reasoning.

   1. Historical argument
   2. Secondary source
   3. Archaeology
   4. Chronology

5. Societies and historical change: which term fits this description? A path or network regularly used to exchange goods.

   1. Reform
   2. Trade route
   3. Industrialization
   4. Settlement

6. Explain the difference between an intended and unintended consequence.

7. Why might different groups experience the same reform differently?

8. Societies and historical change: which term fits this description? A place where people establish homes and community activities.

   1. Industrialization
   2. Revolution
   3. Nomadic life
   4. Settlement

9. Historical thinking and evidence: which term fits this description? A tendency that can shape how information is selected, presented or interpreted.

   1. Cause
   2. Oral history
   3. Historiography
   4. Bias

10. Write a fair response to evidence that complicates your original thesis.

11. A timeline runs from year 1450 to year 1520 without a calendar boundary issue. Find elapsed years.

12. Which phrase signals a distinction between evidence and interpretation?

    1. No context is needed.
    2. This certainly proves all motives.
    3. The records show X; this may indicate Y.
    4. Every person thought the same.

13. Why specify a time scale when evaluating change?

14. Societies and historical change: which term fits this description? A form of government in which a monarch serves as head of state.

    1. Barter
    2. Monarchy
    3. Settlement
    4. Trade route

15. Societies and historical change: which term fits this description? A system in which a power establishes control over another territory and its people.

    1. Agriculture
    2. Colonialism
    3. Domestication
    4. Constitution

16. A new bridge opens and market visits increase. Why is timing alone insufficient to prove the bridge caused all the increase?

17. How can a biased source still be useful to a historian?

18. Historical thinking and evidence: which term fits this description? A difference in conditions, practices or institutions over time.

    1. Historical argument
    2. Context
    3. Historical change
    4. Chronology

19. Which use of a quotation is strongest?

    1. Use it without attribution.
    2. Assume it proves every point.
    3. Replace analysis with a long copied passage.
    4. Explain its context and connect a specific detail to the claim.

20. Societies and historical change: which term fits this description? Direct exchange of goods or services without money as the medium.

    1. Barter
    2. Industrialization
    3. Nomadic life
    4. Treaty