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  1. History Assessments
  2. Sourcing
  3. The New Deal and World War II
  4. John Brown's Legacy
Topic: U.S. History
Historical Skills: Sourcing, Contextualization
Time Period: The New Deal and World War II
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Alternative Versions of Assessment

  • Creating Columbus Day
  • Haymarket Aftermath
  • The Case of the Clock
  • Standard Oil Company

John Brown's Legacy

This assessment gauges students' ability to source and contextualize a document. Students must first situate a playbill in time. Students then select facts that might provide relevant historical context for determining the authors' motivation and explain how the facts might shed light on why the authors wrote the play.

Image: Poster of "Battle Hymn." From the Library of Congress.

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Alternative Versions of Assessment

  • 1892 Lithograph of Columbus's Landing at Guanahani

    Creating Columbus Day

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  • Haymarket Aftermath

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  • The Case of the Clock

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  • Standard Oil Company

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