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  1. History Assessments
  2. Background Knowledge
  3. The New Deal and World War II
  4. Labor History
Topic: U.S. History
Historical Skills: Background Knowledge, Contextualization, Periodization
Time Period: The New Deal and World War II, The Gilded Age
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Alternative Versions of Assessment

  • Civil Rights Movement in Context
  • Cold War Foreign Policy
  • The Conservation Movement
  • Immigration
  • Women's Rights
  • Mexican American Rights
  • Native American Rights

Labor History

Like Civil Rights Movement in Context, this assessment gauges students’ ability to contextualize two historical documents and place them in the correct chronological order. Document A is an article titled "The Recent Strikes" published in the North American Review in 1877. Document B is from Franklin Roosevelt's statement on the National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act) in 1935. The assessment draws on students' knowledge about the American labor movement but in a way that goes beyond the simple recall of facts and dates. Students must show that they have a broad understanding of how the labor movement changed over time and demonstrate the ability to use knowledge about the past to place the historical documents in context.

In this assessment, students who correctly contextualize the documents will see that Document A, which describes the President deploying troops to quell labor unrest, was likely written before Document B, which discusses gains made later in the labor movement, like collective bargaining and the notion of workers’ rights.  

"The Recent Strikes" article

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