<p>Historical thinking skills allow historians to better practice and interpret history. This series teaches students how to develop these skills to become better historians themselves.<br></p> <p>This Learning Lab will guide students through the process of defining cause and effect and practicing employing strategies from an example dealing with the 1850s and the Abolitionist Movement. </p> <p>Historians ask how an individual, group, event or idea was caused or influenced by events that came before it, as well as what short-term and long-term effects that an individual, group, event, or idea had on what came after.</p> <p> Keywords: nmaahc, African, American, historical, thinking, skills, cause, effect, 1850s, abolition, slavery, interpret, analyze</p>