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Washington State: Classroom Based Assessment(CBA)

Links to Primary Documents at the National Archives and Records Administration

8th Grade

Dig Deep (History, Geography)

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:

Revolution and the New Nation 1754 to 1829

• Declaration of Independence (1776)
  
  
• Lee Resolution (1776)
  
  
• Articles of Confederation (1777)
  
  
• Treaty of Alliance with France (1778)
  
  
• Original Design of the Great Seal of the United States (1782)
  
  
• Treaty of Paris (1783)
  
  
• Virginia Plan (1787)
  
  
• Northwest Ordinance (1787)
  
  
• Constitution of the United States (1787)
  
  
• Federalist Papers, No. 10 & No. 51 (1787-1788)
  
  
• Federal Judiciary Act (1789)
  
  
• President George Washington's First Inaugural Speech (1789)
  
  
• 1791 Bill of Rights (1791)
  
  
• Patent for Cotton Gin (1794)
  
  
• President George Washington's Farewell Address (1796)
  
  
• Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)
  
  
• Marbury v Madison (1803)
  
  
• Treaty of Ghent (1814)
  
  
• McCulloch v Maryland (1819)
  
  
• Monroe Doctrine (1823)
  
  

Expansion and Reform 1801 to 1861

• Jefferson's Secret Message to Congress Regarding the Lewis & Clark (1803)
  
  
• Louisiana Purchase Treaty (1803)
  
  
• Gibbons v Ogden (1824)
  
  
• President Andrew Jackson's Message to Congress 'On Indian Removal' (1830)
  
  
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
  
  
• Homestead Act (1862)
  
  
• Morrill Act (1862)
  
  
• Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868)
  
  
• Check for the Purchase of Alaska (1868)
  
  
• Dawes Act (1887)
  
  

Civil War and Reconstruction 1850 to 1877

• Missouri Compromise (1820)
  
  
• Compromise of 1850 (1850)
  
  
• Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
  
  
• Dred Scott v Sanford (1857)
  
  
• Telegram Announcing the Surrender of Fort Sumter (1861)
  
  
• Gettysburg Address (1863)
  
  
• Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
  
  
• War Department General Order 143: Creation of the U.S. Colored Troops (1863)
  
  
• Wade-Davis Bill (1864)
  
  
• Articles of Agreement Relating to the Surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia (1865)
  
  
• 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Abolition of Slavery (1865)
  
  
• President Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address (1865)
  
  
• 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Civil Rights (1868)
  
  
• 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Voting Rights (1870)

The Development of the Industrial United States 1870 to 1900

• Pacific Railway Act (1862)
  
  
• Act Establishing Yellowstone National Park (1872)
  
  
• Thomas Edison's Patent Application for the Light Bulb (1880)
  
  
• Pendleton Act (1883)
  
  
• Interstate Commerce Act (1887)

The Emergence of Modern America 1890 to 1930

• Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
  
  
• Dawes Act (1887)
  
  
• Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)
  
  
• Plessy v Ferguson (1896)
  
  
• De Lôme Letter (1898)
  
  
• Joint Resolution to Provide for Annexing the Hawaiian Islands to the United States (1898)
  
  
• Platt Amendment (1903)
  
  
• Theodore Roosevelt's Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (1905)
  
  
• 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Federal Income Tax (1913)
  
  
• 17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Direct Election of U.S. Senators (1913)
  
  
• Keating-Owen Child Labor Act of 1916 (1916)
  
  
• Joint Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War Against Germany (1917)
  
  
• Zimmermann Telegram (1917)
  
  
• President Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points (1918)
  
  
• 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Women's Right to Vote (1920)
  
  
• Boulder Canyon Project Act (1928)
  
  

The Great Depression and World War II 1929 to 1945

• Tennessee Valley Authority Act (1933)
  
  
• National Industrial Recovery Act (1933)
  
  
• National Labor Relations Act (1935)
  
  
• Social Security Act (1935)
  
  
• President Franklin Roosevelt's Radio Address Unveiling the Second Half of the New Deal (1936)
  
  
• President Franklin Roosevelt's Annual Message (Four Freedoms) to Congress (1941)
  
  
• Lend-Lease Act (1941)
  
  
• Executive Order 8802: Prohibition of Discrimination in the Defense Industry (1941)
  
  
• Joint Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War Against Japan (1941)
  
  
• Executive Order 9066: Resulting in the Relocation of Japanese (1942)
  
  
• Servicemen's Readjustment Act (1944)
  
  
• General Dwight D. Eisenhower's Order of the Day (1944)
  
  
• Surrender of Germany (1945)
  
  
• Manhattan Project Notebook (1945)
  
  
• ;Surrender of Japan (1945)

Postwar United States 1945 to 1970

• United Nations Charter (1945)
  
  
• Truman Doctrine (1947)
  
  
• Marshall Plan (1948)
  
  
• Press Release Announcing U.S. Recognition of Israel (1948)
  
  
• Executive Order 9981: Desegregation of the Armed Forces (1948)
  
  
• Armistice Agreement for the Restoration of the South Korean State (1953)
  
  
• Brown v Board of Education (1954)
  
  
• Senate Resolution 301: Censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy (1954)
  
  
• National Interstate and Defense Highways Act (1956)
  
  
• Executive Order 10730: Desegregation of Central High School (1957)
  
  
• President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Address (1961)
  
  
• President John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address (1961)
  
  
• Executive Order 10924: Establishment of the Peace Corps (1961)
  
  
• Transcript of John Glenn's Official Communication with the Command Center (1962)
  
  
• Aerial Photograph of Missiles in Cuba (1962)
  
  
• Test Ban Treaty (1963)
  
  
• Official Program for the March on Washington (1963)
  
  
• Civil Rights Act (1964)
  
  
• Tonkin Gulf Resolution (1964)
  
  
• Voting Rights Act (1965)
  
  
• Social Security Act Amendments (1965)
  
  

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Associated Washington State Standards {EALR}

• History 1.2.2 - Identify and analyze major issues, people, and events in Washington State, U.S. and World History.
• History 1.1.2b - Using evidence for support, identify, analyze, and explain possible causal factors contributing to given historical events.
• Geography 1.2.2b - Analyze how human spatial patterns emerge from natural processes and human activities.

Scoring
EALR	Scoring (*for additional levels, see OSPI Scoring Rubric)
History 1.2.2	*at highest level... Historical account is a plausible description of the time period that is well supported by explicit references to three or more specific artifacts and/or primary sources. Account contains no inaccuracies.
History 1.1.2b	*at highest level... Presents a plausible interpretation of two or more causes of a particular historical event (or related events) that is explicitly related to a central question/thesis and is well supported by artifacts and/or primary sources.
Geography 1.2.2b	*at highest level... Provides a plausible and explicitly supported explanation about the relationship between the geography and both how people lived and why events occurred.

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