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  1. History Assessments
  2. Contextualization
  3. American Imperialism
  4. Explosion of the USS Maine
Topic: U.S. History
Historical Skills: Contextualization, Sourcing, Use of Evidence
Time Period: American Imperialism
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Alternative Versions of Assessment

  • Opposition to the Philippine-American War
  • The KKK in the 1870s
  • Clay's American System
  • The Rockefeller Foundation
  • The Role of Women
  • Mexican Immigration in the 1920s
  • Haitian Revolution
  • United Farm Workers
  • Vicksburg

Explosion of the USS Maine

Like Opposition to the Philippine-American War, this assessment gauges students’ ability to reason about how evidence supports a historical argument. Students must explain how a report by the Naval Court of Inquiry and a San Francisco newspaper article both support the conclusion that confusion surrounded the sinking of the USS Maine at the time.

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Alternative Versions of Assessment

  • Opposition to the Philippine-American War

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  • The KKK in the 1870s

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  • Clay's American System

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  • The Rockefeller Foundation

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  • The Role of Women

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    Mexican Immigration in the 1920s

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  • Haitian Revolution

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  • United Farm Workers

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  • Vicksburg

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