APUSH Historical Thinking Skills
Definition
These are a set of skills that students need to master for the Advanced Placement U.S. History (APUSH) exam. They include understanding causation, continuity and change over time, comparison, contextualization, historical interpretation and synthesis.
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Causation: Understanding cause-and-effect relationships between events in history.
Continuity and Change Over Time: Analyzing what has stayed the same and what has changed over a certain period in history.
Historical Interpretation: Making sense of historical data by analyzing evidence from multiple sources and drawing conclusions based on that analysis.
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AP US History - 1.1 Context: European Encounters in the Americas
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