Definitions from Units 1 and 2

Unit 1
Collective Past: the history of people

 Historical Method: used by historians and professionals who invesitgate and interpret the past.  They look for evidence to answer the questions they pose.

Individual Past: is made up of the major events and experiences in your life that shape you and your memories.

 Primary Source: is a first hand account made at the time that an event occurs.

 Secondary Source: is an interpretation of an event based on information gathered from primary sources.

History: is the study of the past.

Unit 2
Lifestyle: refers to the way a person or group live

Emigrate: is the person who moves from their home to another country/ place.

Immigrate: moving (the act of moving or travel) from you homeland to another country/place.

Push Factor: reasons why someone would leave a place (negative).

Pull Factor: reasons why someone would move a place (positive).

Natural Increase: where there are more births than deaths and a higher rate of immigration than emigration (more people coming than going).

Internal Migration: movement from one place to another within the same province or census area.