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  1. Which best defines an artifact?

    Answer: An object made by people in the past

    Artifacts are objects from the past such as tools or pottery.

  2. Why do historians analyze the Virginia Declaration of Rights alongside the Declaration of Independence?

    Answer: To trace how ideas about natural rights spread and influenced each other

    George Mason's 1776 document influenced Jefferson's language and the Bill of Rights.

  3. A student reads that 'Many people believed the war would end quickly.' What type of evidence would best test this claim?

    Answer: Letters and newspapers from the period

    Contemporary letters and newspapers reveal what people actually believed.

  4. Which describes continuity rather than change?

    Answer: Agriculture remained important in Virginia from colonial times through the 19th century

    Continuity means something stayed the same over time.

  5. A primary source from 1963 says 'We shall overcome.' Which event is it most likely connected to?

    Answer: The Civil Rights Movement

    The phrase was a hallmark of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.

  6. Why should a student check the date of publication for a source on the Cold War?

    Answer: To determine whether it was written during or long after events and what information was available

    Date shows whether the author lived the events and what was known then.

  7. Which is a secondary source?

    Answer: A biography of Thomas Jefferson written in 2010

    A modern biography interprets events using other sources.

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