Change Continuity and a Historical Explanation

Supplied materials

• Paper and pencil; drawing or spoken answers are welcome.
• Topic notes: Change: a stated difference over time. Continuity: a stated feature persisting across the comparison. Cause: a factor helping explain an event or development. Consequence: an outcome following from a stated development.
• Original exercise cards: A card compares slavery before abolition with legal abolition afterward. / A card notes discrimination continuing despite amendments. / A card connects conflict over slavery with secession. / A card identifies legal abolition as an outcome of the Thirteenth Amendment. / A card notes communities maintaining identities across the war. / A card connects organized activism with reform pressure. / A card identifies changed citizenship protection after ratification. / A card compares citizenship rules before and after the Fourteenth Amendment.

Learn the idea

Historical change means a feature differs across time; continuity means it persists. A cause helps explain why something happened, while a consequence is an outcome. The Civil War and Reconstruction changed constitutional rules, but inequality persisted. A careful explanation names the feature and date instead of saying everything changed.

Change: a stated difference over time. Continuity: a stated feature persisting across the comparison. Cause: a factor helping explain an event or development. Consequence: an outcome following from a stated development.

Name what changed or continued. Keep a factor helping explain an event separate from an outcome of the event. Read the notes and the word cards. You can write, draw or say your answer.

1. Read the four notes. Find the words Change, Continuity, Cause, Consequence.
2. Name what changed or continued. Keep a factor helping explain an event separate from an outcome of the event.
3. Read the worked answer. Then try the other cards and explain which words helped you choose.
4. Choose two different examples: one for Change and one for Continuity. Explain how their clues differ.

Check your reasoning

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Take it further

New card: “A card compares citizenship rules before and after the Fourteenth Amendment.” Match it with a note, then point to or say the words that helped. Check: The card says: “A card compares citizenship rules before and after the Fourteenth Amendment.” That matches Change. Change is a stated difference over time.

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