MODERN US HISTORY
COMMON ASSESSMENTS
QUARTER 1
DBQ RUBRIC NAME:
Grade Documents: Grade Outline:
• Score of 5
Thoroughly addresses all aspects of the task by accurately analyzing and interpreting most
of the documents.
ncorporates relevant outside information
Richly supports outline with relevant facts, examples, and details
Writes a well-organized outline, consistently demonstrating a logical and clear plan of
organization
Includes a strong introduction
Includes a strong conclusion
Includes an original thesis statement
• Score of 4
Addresses all aspects of the task by accurately analyzing and interpreting most of the
documents.
Incorporates relevant outside information
Supports outline with relevant facts, examples and details-may be more descriptive than
analytical
Writes a well-organized outline, demonstrating a logical and clear plan of organization
Includes a good introduction
Includes a good conclusion
Includes a clear thesis statement
• Score of 3
Addresses most aspects of the task or all aspects in a limited way
Incorporates limited or no relevant outside information
Uses some facts, examples, and details-but is more descriptive than analytical
Writes a satisfactorily developed outline, demonstrating a general plan of organization
States the theme in the conclusion
Includes a thesis statement
• Score of 2
Attempts to address some aspects of the task by accurately analyzing and interpreting most
of the documents
Incorporates limited or no outside information
Uses few facts, examples, and details-simply restates contents of documents
Writes a poorly organized outline, lacking focus
Has a vague or missing introduction
Has a vague or missing conclusion
Lacks a clear thesis statement
• Score of 1
Shows limited understanding of the task with vague, unclear references to the documents
Presents no relevant outside information
Attempts to complete the task but demonstrates a major weakness in organization
Uses few or no accurate or relevant facts, details, or examples
Has vague or missing introduction or conclusion
• Score of 0
Fails to address the task
Writing is illegible
Blank paper
Comments:
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3RD QUARTER
ANALYZING MAPS, CHARTS, GRAPHS WORKSHEET
1.What do the colors represent in the graph, chart or map?
2.What symbols (if any) are used in the graph, chart or map?
If a symbol is used, is it
a. clear (easy to interpret)?
b. memorable?
c. dramatic?
3. Who or what is the source of the information in the graph/chart/map?
4. Who do you think is the intended audience for the chart/graphmap?
5. What does the source of the graph/chart/map hope the audience will do with the information?
6. What purpose(s) is served by the information in the graph/chart/map?
7. Is this an effective graph/chart/map? Why or why not?
Adapted from the Education Staff, National Archives and Records Administration,Washington, DC
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QUARTER 3 ASSESSMENT
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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1. What did Roosevelt and Congress pass the day after FDR’s inauguration?
A. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
B. Emergency Banking Bill
C. Federal Emergency Relief Act
D. Agricultural Adjustment Act
2. Roosevelt created the Securities Exchange Commission to
A. regulate the stock market.
B. ensure bank deposits.
C. give banks a chance to organize.
D. pay farmers to destroy their livestock.
3. What reason does the National Labor Relations Act give for allowing labor unions to form?
A. Labor unions make conditions safer in workplaces.
B. The flow of commerce cannot continue without collective bargaining.
C. Collective bargaining ensures equality and protects the flow of business.
D. Experience proves that workers are interrupted if collective bargaining exists.
4. The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 prohibited
A. Native Americans from receiving Social Security.
B. government from further dividing Native American land.
C. tribes from governing their lands.
D. people from grazing their sheep.
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5. The New Deal Coalition was a strong political force that
A. encouraged African Americans to vote for Republicans.
B. prevented Native Americans from voting in elections.
C. gave Democrats a majority in both houses of Congress for many years.
D. brought wealthy people more power in the federal government.
6. Which of the following extended job opportunities to Mexican Americans and other minority
youth?
A. Civilian Conservation Corps
B. Federal Emergency Relief Act
C. Tennessee Valley Authority
D. Federal Writers’ Project
7. Critics disapproved of the Tennessee Valley Authority because it
A. Distributed money to people outside the Tennessee Valley.
B. gave government direct control of a business.
C. paid farmers to kill off excess livestock.
D. built dams to control flood waters.
8. How did Eleanor Roosevelt change the role of the First Lady?
A. The role became an elected position with Congressional voting rights.
B. She created a newspaper column that all First Ladies now have to write.
C. The role changed from being largely ceremonial to a role of political involvement.
D. She created a new Cabinet position for herself that all First Ladies since have held.
9. The Bonneville Dam and other similar projects
A. created irrigation for California.
B. improved life in the American West.
C. focused attention on tenant farmers.
D. encouraged people to move to farms.
10. People turned to radio and movies in the 1930s to
A. escape their troubles.
B. celebrate industrial workers.
C. listen for ways to save money.
D. learn more about the depression.
11. What did Congress do to deal with the banking crisis?
A. create the Tennessee Valley Authority.
B. pass the Emergency Banking Bill.
C. deny the Bonus Army’s benefits.
D. vote for the Civilian Conservation Corps.
12. What were the goals of the New Deal?
A. reform the government and decrease spending.
B. create schools and protect farmers.
C. increase spending on defense and trade.
D. provide relief, recovery, and reform.
13. Some opponents of the New Deal believed that it
A. benefited only the banking industry.
B. harmed home owners.
C. threatened individual freedom.
D. gave too much power to the people.
14. The American Liberty League formed to
A. support the Bonus Army.
B. introduce new legislation.
C. oppose FDR’s New Deal.
D. oppose the TVA.
15. The Agricultural Adjustment Act helped farmers because it
A. sought to end overproduction and raise crop prices.
B. attracted industry with the promise of cheap power.
C. created jobs for over 2 million U.S. citizens.
D. regulated the stock market and made investments safer.
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____ 16. What did President Roosevelt introduce to help retirees?
A. Fair Labor Standards Act.
B. Works Progress Administration.
C. Second New Deal.
D. Social Security Act.
____ 17. The Rural Electrification Administration provided electricity to
A. the elderly.
B. farmers.
C. the unemployed.
D. minorities.
____ 18. The right to collective bargaining was part of the
A. Wagner Act.
B. Works Progress Administration.
C. Social Security Act.
D. Agricultural Adjustment Act.
____ 19. Members of the _____ participated in a sit down strike until General Motors agreed to
recognize them.
A. WPA
B. UAW
C. REA
D. NLRB
____ 20. What caused Republicans to gain power in Congress in 1938?
A. The Supreme Court started approved New Deal programs.
B. The economy took a downturn and wiped out much of FDR’s progress
C. Unemployment went down from 14 percent to 10 percent.
D. Southern Democrats became supporters of the New Deal.
____ 21. Which opponent of the New Deal believed that the program did not do enough to help poor
Americans and what program did he propose?
A. Herbert Hoover suggested Roosevelt promote a spirit of liberty to help poor
Americans.
B. Father Charles Coughlin believed Roosevelt should do more to increase the
economy and fight the depression
C. Francis Townsend suggested offering aid to older American devastated by the
depression.
D. Senator Huey Long proposed a high tax program on the wealthy and large
corporations and the redistribution of their income to give to poor Americans.
____ 22. What was the chief complaint of Conservatives against the New Deal?
A. promoted free enterprise and individualism.
B. made the government too powerful.
C. brought change that were too radical for most Americans.
D. concerned only with saving the banking system.
____ 23. Eleanor Roosevelt showed her support of minorities when she
A. appointed herself as Secretary of Labor.
B. sat with black delegates at a conference.
C. wrote a weekly newspaper column.
D. established a minimum wage.
____ 24. During the 1930s, the Bureau of Indian Affairs
A. passed acts that led to total landlessness.
B. denied Native Americans the right to vote.
C. stopped discouraging the practice of Indian religions.
D. encouraged Native Americans to herd sheep on the Colorado Plateau.
____ 25. FDR set aside 12 million acres of land for
A. Indian reservations.
B. farms.
C. dams.
D. national parks.
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____ 26. How many terms did Roosevelt serve as President?
A. 1
B. 3
C. 2
D. 4
____ 27. Who was the first female Cabinet member?
A. Frances Perkins
B. Margaret Marshall
C. Mary McLeod Bethune
D. Eleanor Roosevelt
____ 28. Which piece of New Deal legislation negatively affected Native Americans?
A. the Reorganization Act.
B. the Navajo Livestock Reduction program.
C. the Indian New Deal.
D. the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934.
____ 29. How did the Indian New Deal reverse the conditions that resulted from the Dawes Act?
A. gave Native Americans more plots of tribal land that was arid and easy to farm.
B. appointed John Collier the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and he did little to help the
Native Americans.
C. Discouraged the practice of Indian religions and traditional customs and encouraged
Native Americans to participate in mainstream society.
D. John Collier helped get laws passed that restored tribal control over American Indian
land.
____ 30. Who was a top swing musician?
A. Glenn Miller
B. Orson Welles
C. Woody Guthrie
D. Billie Holiday
____ 31. One way that Americans escaped their concerns during the 1930s was to
A. live in the country.
B. follow the stock market.
C. go to theaters to watch movies.
D. avoid watching news on television.
____ 32. The Lone Ranger and The Shadow are examples of
A. big bands.
B. Depression-era novels.
C. Broadway musicals.
D. radio series.
____ 33. What radio drama was so realistic that some people thought aliens were invading Earth?
A. The Wizard of Oz
B. The Grapes of Wrath
C. “War of the Worlds”
D. “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington”
____ 34. The Federal Art Project set a precedent for
A. increased government support of radicals.
B. federal funding of the arts and artists.
C. free theater performances for the public.
D. realistically showing living conditions on farms.
____ 35. Between which two years did the annual amount of Social Security payments experience the
greatest increase?
A. 1938 and 1939
B. 1937 and 1938
C. 1940 and 1941
D. 1939 and 1940
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____ 36. What was a significant flaw of the Social Security Act?
A. Did not apply to domestics or farmworkers at first.
B. Paid widowers smaller benefits than it did widows.
C. Did not offer a pension system for the elderly.
D. No unemployment insurance or insurance for victims of work-related accidents.
Use the table and your knowledge of social studies to answer the following questions.
____ 37. Which of the following statements is correct?
A. Movie studios were very similar to the 1930s to the ones of the 1920s.
B. The radio was a source of information in both the 1920s and 1930s.
C. Country and western music was popular during both the 1920s and 1930s.
D. Fitzgerald wrote about the American dream in The Grapes of Wrath.
____ 38. Why did Americans enjoy escapist films in the 1930s?
A. Movies provided relief from everyday the problems of the Great Depression.
B. Many films such as Public Enemy reflected the public’s distrust of big business and
government.
C. People were bored with radio entertainment.
D. Escapist films reflected the world in a realistic way.
Matching
Directions: Choose the person or term that best fits each description. You will not use all of the
answers.
A. Mary McLeod Bethune
AC. Welfare state
B. Federal Art Project
AD. Works Progress Administration
C. sit-down strike
AE. Huey Long
D. court packing
BC. Fireside chats
E. John Steinbeck
BD. Collective bargaining
AB. Pumping priming
BE. Social security
____ 39. Louisiana Senator who opposed the New Deal
____ 40. putting money in consumers’ hands to stimulate the economy
____ 41. member of the Black Cabinet
____ 42. formed when the government assumes responsibility for providing for citizens’ needs
____ 43. protest used against General Motors
____ 44. name for FDR’s attempt to change the Supreme Court
____ 45. New Deal program that funded large murals
____ 46. New Deal program created to build and improve highways
____ 47. writer of The Grapes of Wrath
____ 48. allowed union members to negotiate about hours and wages
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Directions: Match the definitions with the letter of the correct term or person. You will not use all the
terms and people.
A. Charles Coughlin
E. Anton Cermak
B. Franklin D. Roosevelt
AB. FDIC
C. Eleanor Roosevelt
AC. NRA
D. Huey Long
____ 49. became the President’s “eyes and ears” during the first New Deal
____ 50. Roman Catholic priest who criticized the New Deal
____ 51. signed into law fifteen pieces of legislation in the first hundred days of office
____ 52. opposed the New Deal and introduced a “Share Our Wealth” program
____ 53. New Deal program designed to insure bank deposits
Directions: Match the definitions with the letter of the correct term or person. You will not use all the
terms and people.
A. Frank Capra
E. John Steinbeck
B. Top Hat
AB. Lillian Hellman
C. murals
AC. Ginger Rogers
D. The Wizard of Oz
AD. Richard Wright
____ 54. Artists painted large pictures called _____ on public buildings to celebrate the people who
helped build the nation.
____ 55. _____ is one of the most memorable Depression-era movies because it showed people that
their dreams could come true.
____ 56. Director _____ made movies that showed the strength of average Americans.
____ 57. _____ wrote a novel about the Joad family.
____ 58. 1930s playwright _____ wrote socially conscious plays featuring strong female roles.
Directions: Circle the word in parentheses that best completes the sentence.
59. The government program passed during the New Deal that provided for retirement programs
was called (FDIC/Social Security).
60. (Owen J. Roberts/John Maynard Keynes) was a British economist who believed that deficit
spending was necessary to provide the necessary relief from the depression.
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QUARTER 3 ASSESSMENT
Answer Section-The answers are used for the bubble sheets used by the scanners. That is why there
are answers with multiple letters for the matching , i.e., AB, BD, etc.
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. ANS: B
2. ANS: A
3. ANS: C
4. ANS: B
5. ANS: C
6. ANS: A
7. ANS: B
8. ANS: C
9. ANS: B
10. ANS: A
11. ANS: B
12. ANS: D
13. ANS: C
14. ANS: C
15. ANS: A
16. ANS: D
17. ANS: B
18. ANS: A
19. ANS: B
20. ANS: B
21. ANS: D
22. ANS: B
23. ANS: B
24. ANS: C
25. ANS: D
26. ANS: D
27. ANS: A
28. ANS: B
29. ANS: D
30. ANS: A
31. ANS: C
32. ANS: D
33. ANS: C
34. ANS: B
35. ANS: C
36. ANS: A
37. ANS: B
38. ANS: A
MATCHING
39. ANS: AE
40. ANS: AB
41. ANS: A
42. ANS: AC
43. ANS: C
44. ANS: D
45. ANS: B
46. ANS: AD
47. ANS: E
48. ANS: BD
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60. ANS: John Maynard Keynes
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