Question

Why do historians use information from biased documents?(1 point)
Responses

Biased documents are the only documents historians can use.
Biased documents are the only documents historians can use.

Biased documents help them reason who the author was and what social economic class they were from.
Biased documents help them reason who the author was and what social economic class they were from.

Understanding an author’s beliefs helps them get a feel for the main ideas of the time.
Understanding an author’s beliefs helps them get a feel for the main ideas of the time.

Biased documents are accurate portrayals of events.

Answer 1

Which main events are most likely included in the era named Age of Contact (1519–1689)?(1 point)
Responses

an expansion of cattle and railroads
an expansion of cattle and railroads

growth of the oil industry
growth of the oil industry

violent encounters between Native Americans and Spanish explorers
violent encounters between Native Americans and Spanish explorers

a civil war and the aftermath

Answer 2

Biased documents are accurate portrayals of events.

Answer 3

violent encounters between Native Americans and Spanish explorers