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  1. History Assessments
  2. Background Knowledge
  3. Slavery and Expansion
  4. Gold Rush
Topic: U.S. History
Historical Skills: Background Knowledge, Contextualization
Time Period: Slavery and Expansion
  • Assessment
  • Rubric & Student Responses

Alternative Versions of Assessment

  • Bonus Army
  • Berlin Wall
  • Cuban Missile Crisis Photograph
  • Dust Bowl
  • Homestead Strike
  • Iranian Revolution
  • KKK Parade
  • March on Washington
  • Munich Conference
  • Russian Revolution
  • Russo-Japanese War
  • Sit-Down Strike
  • Tulsa Massacre

Gold Rush

This assessment gauges whether students can identify the historical event or development depicted in a photograph from the past and evaluate the historical significance of the event. Successful students will draw on their knowledge of the past to explain that this photograph is from the Gold Rush and then explain how this event is historically significant.

Gold miners in California image

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Alternative Versions of Assessment

  • Bonus Army encampment, 1932 image

    Bonus Army

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  • Berlin Wall in 1961. From the Library of Congress

    Berlin Wall

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  • Soviet missile equipment being loaded at port in Cuba 1962. From the Library of Congress

    Cuban Missile Crisis Photograph

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  • Child of farmer image

    Dust Bowl

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  • Homestead Strike image

    Homestead Strike

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  • Iranian Revolution of 1979. From the Library of Congress

    Iranian Revolution

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  • KKK parade image

    KKK Parade

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  • March on Washington image

    March on Washington

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  • Munich Agreement image

    Munich Conference

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  • Photograph of soldiers in Saint Petersburg. From the Library of Congress

    Russian Revolution

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  • Photograph of Russian warship destroyed by enemy shells, 1905. From the Library of Congress

    Russo-Japanese War

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  • Sitdown strikers image

    Sit-Down Strike

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  • Tulsa, Oklahoma image

    Tulsa Massacre

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