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  1. History Assessments
  2. Contextualization
  3. Colonial Era
  4. The Virginia Company
Topic: U.S. History
Historical Skills: Contextualization, Sourcing, Use of Evidence
Time Period: Colonial Era
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  • Rubric

Alternative Versions of Assessment

  • Unions in Paterson, New Jersey
  • Post-Civil War South
  • Traders in the West
  • Portrait of an Iroquois Leader
  • Seven Years' War
  • Jacob Riis
  • Kathleen Cleaver Interview
  • Qing Engraving
  • Japan and America
  • Children Working in Mines
  • Arabian Peninsula
  • Defender of Slavery
  • Hawaiian Annexation
  • Cuban Missile Crisis Interview
  • Vietnam War
  • The Florentine Codex

The Virginia Company

Like the Unions in Paterson, New Jersey assessment, this question gauges whether students can source and contextualize a document. Students must first examine a report on the progress of the Virginia Company, then determine which fact can help them evaluate the report's reliability. Strong students will be able to explain how the Company's desire to attract new investors (Fact 2) may have led the authors to put a positive spin on life in Virginia.

1612 Virginia Company tract

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"The New Life of Virginea" - Library of Congress Register or Log in to access

Alternative Versions of Assessment

  • Unions in Paterson, New Jersey

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  • Drawing of "Contrabands" Escaping in Virginia

    Post-Civil War South

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  • Traders in the West

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  • Portrait of Tee Yee Neen Ho Ga Row

    Portrait of an Iroquois Leader

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  • Seven Years' War

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  • Jacob Riis

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  • Kathleen Cleaver Interview

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  • Qing Engraving

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  • Japan and America

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  • Children Working in Mines

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  • Arabian Peninsula

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  • Defender of Slavery

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  • Annexation newspaper article. From the Library of Congress

    Hawaiian Annexation

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  • McNamara Interview image

    Cuban Missile Crisis Interview

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  • Laird interview image

    Vietnam War

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  • Florentine Codex Illustration

    The Florentine Codex

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