PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMIC HISTORY STANDARDS VOCABULARY TEST
Choose the best term for each definition from the pull-down menus.
1. Any object made by human work or skill. -- Choose an option -- Article Artifact Antique 2. A demarcation of time designating studies to commence with the written historical record. -- Choose an option -- Beginnings Ancient History Before the Common Era 3. The primary concern from which other problems or matters are derived. For example, today’s world migration flows are a central issue from which other concerns such as terrorist threats may arise. -- Choose an option -- Core events Current events Central issue 4. The science of measuring time and of dating events. Examples include BCE (before the common era) and CE (common era). Another reference to time is CA, around the time, circa. -- Choose an option -- Digital Chronology Light year 5. The opposition of persons or groups that gives rise to dramatic action. Such actions could include the use of force as in combat. -- Choose an option -- Conflict Cooperation Disagreement 6. The skills and arts of a given people in a given period of time or a civilization. -- Choose an option -- Traditions Societal mores Culture 7. Anything written or printed used to record or prove something. -- Choose an option -- Document Diary Discourse 8. Something that makes something else noticeable, obvious or evident. -- Choose an option -- Historical evidence Historical oaths Historical reports 9. An article or section of a longer work that has importance to the past. -- Choose an option -- Constitutional Amendment Addendum or excerpt Historical passage 10. The introduction of something new; an idea, method or device. -- Choose an option -- Initiative Instrument Innovation 11. Explanation, or to reply to a situation in order to make sense of it (e.g., a time period, an individual’s actions). -- Choose an option -- Interpretation Summary Documented report 12. An object or ceremony serving as a remembrance for a person, group, day, site or event. -- Choose an option -- Mausoleum Museum Memorial 13. An historical display in a building, room, etc. for exhibiting artistic, historical or scientific objects. -- Choose an option -- National Archive Museum Federal repository 14. A demarcation of time designating studies to the current year. -- Choose an option -- Present Historical Pre historic 15. A belief based not on certainty but on what seems to be true or probable. -- Choose an option -- Fact Logic(al) Opinion 16. A work stoppage by employees organized against the management of a business entity. -- Choose an option -- Lock down Strike Walk out 17. Measures of a period during which something exists or happens; usually displayed in chronological order on a graph or linear lines. -- Choose an option -- Chronological indices Dating charts Time lines 18. A conflict in which two or more nations, or two or more identities inside a nation, are at odds. -- Choose an option -- War Skirmish Massacre 19. An intense fear or dislike of groups unknown or not within one's experience including the group’s -- Choose an option -- Socilization Xenophobia Hate crime 20. The study of man's past. -- Choose an option -- History Anthropology Political Science
1. Any object made by human work or skill. -- Choose an option -- Article Artifact Antique
2. A demarcation of time designating studies to commence with the written historical record. -- Choose an option -- Beginnings Ancient History Before the Common Era
3. The primary concern from which other problems or matters are derived. For example, today’s world migration flows are a central issue from which other concerns such as terrorist threats may arise. -- Choose an option -- Core events Current events Central issue
4. The science of measuring time and of dating events. Examples include BCE (before the common era) and CE (common era). Another reference to time is CA, around the time, circa. -- Choose an option -- Digital Chronology Light year
5. The opposition of persons or groups that gives rise to dramatic action. Such actions could include the use of force as in combat. -- Choose an option -- Conflict Cooperation Disagreement
6. The skills and arts of a given people in a given period of time or a civilization. -- Choose an option -- Traditions Societal mores Culture
7. Anything written or printed used to record or prove something. -- Choose an option -- Document Diary Discourse
8. Something that makes something else noticeable, obvious or evident. -- Choose an option -- Historical evidence Historical oaths Historical reports
9. An article or section of a longer work that has importance to the past. -- Choose an option -- Constitutional Amendment Addendum or excerpt Historical passage
10. The introduction of something new; an idea, method or device. -- Choose an option -- Initiative Instrument Innovation
11. Explanation, or to reply to a situation in order to make sense of it (e.g., a time period, an individual’s actions). -- Choose an option -- Interpretation Summary Documented report
12. An object or ceremony serving as a remembrance for a person, group, day, site or event. -- Choose an option -- Mausoleum Museum Memorial
13. An historical display in a building, room, etc. for exhibiting artistic, historical or scientific objects. -- Choose an option -- National Archive Museum Federal repository
14. A demarcation of time designating studies to the current year. -- Choose an option -- Present Historical Pre historic
15. A belief based not on certainty but on what seems to be true or probable. -- Choose an option -- Fact Logic(al) Opinion
16. A work stoppage by employees organized against the management of a business entity. -- Choose an option -- Lock down Strike Walk out
17. Measures of a period during which something exists or happens; usually displayed in chronological order on a graph or linear lines. -- Choose an option -- Chronological indices Dating charts Time lines
18. A conflict in which two or more nations, or two or more identities inside a nation, are at odds. -- Choose an option -- War Skirmish Massacre
19. An intense fear or dislike of groups unknown or not within one's experience including the group’s -- Choose an option -- Socilization Xenophobia Hate crime
20. The study of man's past. -- Choose an option -- History Anthropology Political Science