Information and IdeasHardFinding supporting a claim about a cause
Information and Ideas practice question
A historian claims that the village's population fell in the 1840s because of emigration rather than because of disease.
Which finding, if true, would most directly support the historian's claim?
- A. The parish's burials in the 1840s were no higher than in the 1830s, while shipping records list 140 villagers sailing for Canada in 1846 and 1847.Correct
- B. The population fell by a third in the 1840s.
- C. Cholera was present in the county in 1849.
- D. Emigration to Canada was common in the period.
Answer: A. The parish's burials in the 1840s were no higher than in the 1830s, while shipping records list 140 villagers sailing for Canada in 1846 and 1847.
Burials flat; villagers on the passenger lists.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. The population fell by a third in the 1840s.
- The premise.
- C. Cholera was present in the county in 1849.
- Supports the rival explanation.
- D. Emigration to Canada was common in the period.
- A general fact, not evidence about this village.
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