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  1. History Assessments
  2. Background Knowledge
  3. The New Deal and World War II
  4. Mexican Americans in the 1930s
Topic: U.S. History
Historical Skills: Background Knowledge, Contextualization, Corroboration
Time Period: The New Deal and World War II
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Alternative Versions of Assessment

  • Connections to the Philippine-American War
  • The War of 1812
  • Breadlines in the 1930s
  • Attack on Fort Sumter
  • Forced Removal of Japanese Americans
  • Apartheid in South Africa
  • China's Cultural Revolution
  • Appeasement at Munich
  • Tennis Court Oath
  • Seville Quran
  • Tupac Amaru II
  • Haitian Constitution
  • League of Nations
  • Captain Cook
  • Russia and Austria in World War I
  • Transcontinental Railroad Connections

Mexican Americans in the 1930s

Like Connections to the Philippine-American War, this assessment gauges students' knowledge of the past. Rather than measure whether students can simply recall decontextualized facts, this assessment requires students to make connections across time and construct an argument about how events are connected. Students with a strong sense of the past will be able to explain that the Great Depression intensified anti-immigrant scapegoating like that included in this letter or that McClatchy wrote to Congress about how to solve the “problem of unemployment” because the unemployment rate was very high during the Great Depression. Strong students will also be able to connect the xenophobia and racism against Mexicans conveyed in the letter with Mexican Repatriation.

California Joint Immigration Committee Letter

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Alternative Versions of Assessment

  • Connections to the Philippine-American War

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  • The War of 1812

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  • Breadlines in the 1930s

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  • Attack on Fort Sumter

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  • Forced Removal of Japanese Americans

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  • Apartheid in South Africa

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  • China's Cultural Revolution

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  • Appeasement at Munich

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  • Tennis Court Oath

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  • Seville Quran

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  • Tupac Amaru II

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  • Haitian Constitution

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  • League of Nations

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  • Captain Cook

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  • Russia and Austria in World War I

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  • Photograph of Promontory Point 1869

    Transcontinental Railroad Connections

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