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Washington State: Classroom Based Assessment(CBA)

Links to Primary Documents at the National Archives and Records Administration

5th Grade

Causes of Conflict (History, Geography, Civics, Economics)

Primary source documents from "Our Documents, 100 Milestone Source Documents from the National Archives and Records Administration," relating to this Classroom Based Assessment [CBA]:

Important notes for using this section:

• Following each sub-topic is a list representing specific documents that are believed to best illustrate a topic. Each document is linked to an interactive digital copy of the record itself, complete with description, background information and teaching suggestions, from the "Our Documents" web site www.ourdocuments.gov. The transcribed copy is for your convenience and for students having difficulty reading handwriting. All pages can be easily downloaded and/or printed. Just click on the document title and it will take you to the specific "Our Documents" page.

Sample Topics and Associated Primary Sources:

Revolutionary War

• Lee Resolution (1776)
  
  
• Declaration of Independence (1776)
  
  
• Treaty of Alliance with France (1778)
  
  
• Treaty of Paris (1783)

Political Differences (Democrat vs. Republican)

• President George Washington's Farewell Address (1796)
  
  
• Marbury v Madison (1803)
  
  
• McCulloch v Maryland (1819)

Conflicts Between American Citizens and Foreign-born

• Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)
  
  
• Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
  
  
• Executive Order 9066: Resulting in the Relocation of Japanese (1942)

War of 1812

• Treaty of Ghent (1814)
  
  

US Policy Concerning Foreign Governments

• Monroe Doctrine (1823)
  
  
• Theodore Roosevelt's Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (1905)
  
  
• Truman Doctrine (1947)

Mexican War

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)

Civil War (North versus South / Slave versus Free)

• Missouri Compromise (1820)
  
  
• Compromise of 1850 (1850)
  
  
• Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
  
  
• Dred Scott v Sanford (1857)
  
  
• Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
  
  
• Gettysburg Address (1863)
  
  
• President Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address (1865)

Indian Wars

• Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868)

Spanish American War

• De Lôme Letter (1898)

Cuban Independence

• Platt Amendment (1903)

World War I

• Zimmermann Telegram (1917)
  
  
• Joint Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War Against Germany (1917)
  
  
• President Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points (1918)

World War II

• Lend-Lease Act (1941)
  
  
• Joint Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War Against Japan (1941)
  
  
• General Dwight D. Eisenhower's Order of the Day (1944)
  
  
• Manhattan Project Notebook (1945)
  
  
• Surrender of Germany (1945)
  
  
• Surrender of Japan (1945)

Racial Conflict

• Executive Order 8802: Prohibition of Discrimination in the Defense Industry (1941)

Cuban Missile Crisis

• Aerial Photograph of Missiles in Cuba (1962)
  
  
• Test Ban Treaty (1963)

Vietnam War

• Tonkin Gulf Resolution (1964)

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Associated Washington State Standards {EALR}

• History 1.1.1b: Identify and analyze relationships between historical events.
• Geography 1.2.1a: Locate places, major physical features, and human spatial patterns using maps, globes, and other sources
• Civics 3.2.1a Provide examples of conflict, cooperation, and interdependence among individuals, groups, and nations.
• Economics 1.1.1a Recognize that wants exceeding available resources implies alternative uses of the resources and forces individuals into making choices. Every choice has an associated opportunity cost in both a personal and community context.
• Social Studies Skills 1.1.1f - Create a product that demonstrates understanding of information and responds to central questions; present product to a meaningful audience.
• History 1.1.1a: Group personal, local, state, and national events in terms of past, present, and future, and place in proper sequence on a timeline. Note: Students must label each factor with a Social Studies strand.
• Social Studies Skills 1.1.1d: Locate particular facts in social studies documents, identify the main idea.

Scoring
EALR	Scoring (*for additional levels, see OSPI Scoring Rubric)
History 1.1.1b Civics 3.2.1a Geography 1.2.1a Economics 1.1.1a	*at highest level... Accurately uses a graphic organizer to list four causes of conflict, one for each of the four social studies strands: history, geography, civics, and economics.
Social Studies Skills 1.1.1f	*at highest level... Clearly and accurately explains one cause of conflict for each of the four social studies strands: history, geography, civics, and economics.
History 1.1.1a	*at highest level... Identifies on the timeline four events related to the causes of the conflict, one for each of the four social studies strands: history, geography, civics, and economics.
Social Studies Skills 1.1.1d	*at highest level... List of resources thoroughly examines six or more sources.

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