CONTENT STATEMENT
Historians analyze cause, effect, sequence, and correlation in historical events, including multiple causation and long- and short-term causal relations.
CONTENT ELABORATION
When studying a historical event or person in history, historians analyze cause-and-effect relationships. For example, to understand the impact of the Great Migration, an analysis would include its causes and effects.
An analysis also would include an examination of the sequence and correlation of events. How did one event lead to another? How do they relate to one another?
An examination of the Great Migration would include the demand for workers in the industrial north as a short-term cause and the introduction of Jim Crow legislation as a long-term factor contributing to internal migration.
EXPECTATIONS FOR LEARNING
Identify examples of multiple long- and short-term causal relationships with respect to historical events.
Analyze the relationship between historical events taking into consideration cause, effect, sequence, and correlation.