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Prepare for the End of Course Standards of Learning Test for United States and Virginia History by practicing your skills in analyzing primary source documents. This activity will challenge you to identify the time period and historical concept/idea depicted in each document. Take your time and think critically before answering.
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United States and Virginia History SOL Review Primary Source Document Analysis
Introduction • The End of Course Standards of Learning Test for United States and Virginia History will challenge you to analyze photographs, maps, sets of data, graphs and time lines. • The test will not simply ask you to recall simple facts that you have memorized. • You must take your time to weigh each option before choosing. • Try to figure out what they are really asking you in each question.
Instructions For Activity • For each slide you will view a document. • You are going to identify two things for each. • #1: What time period are we talking about? • Ex. During Civil War, Reconstruction, Roaring 20’s, Great Depression, Progressive Movement, 1970’s….etc. • #2: What event, person, movement, historical concept/idea is the picture describing. • Ex. Marshall Plan, Containment, Tuskegee Airmen, Trench Warfare…etc.
#1 • “Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.”
#17 • Impressment of United States Navy • Oregon Territory • Treaty of Ghent • ????