1. Discuss with your Guilds
Do you have test anxiety? If so, how come? What creates this and why? If not, how do you keep away from it? Overall, what can students do to alleviate test anxiety?

2. Last test (percentage that is proficient)
Comparison…64%
Contextualization…48%
Causation…42%
Evidence…57%
Point of View…48%

3. Evidence
Item 2
The excerpt suggests that promoters such as Smith most typically presented migration as a means for
Workers to achieve social mobility and economic opportunity
People to earn wages to send home to their families
Countries to acquire new sources of mineral wealth
Joint-stock companies to generate profits

4. Causation
Whitefield’s impact suggests that religious culture among British North American colonists in the 1700s was most directly shaped by
Roman Catholic influences
Interest in commerce and business
Trans-Atlantic exchanges
Reliance on agriculture

5. Multiple Choice Stimulus Based Tips!
Before reading the excerpt, look at the bottom to see who wrote the source and what their perspective is!

6. Multiple Choice Stimulus Based Tips!
Read the stimulus once for comprehension and a second time for analysis
(perspective, point of view, audience, purpose, main idea, significance, etc.)

7. Multiple Choice Stimulus Based Tips!
Typically, each answer is correct or make sense historically…your job when answering is to link which answer makes sense to the
CONTEXT OF THE QUESTION!

8. What skill is this question assessing?
“Apart from his navigational skills, what most set Columbus apart from other Europeans of his day were not the things that he believed, but the intensity with which he believed in them and the determination with which he acted upon those beliefs… “Columbus was, in most respects, merely an especially active and dramatic embodiment of the European – and especially the Mediterranean – mind and should of his time: a religious fanatic obsessed with the conversion, conquest, or liquidation of all non-Christians; a latter-day Crusader in search of personal wealth and fame, who expected the enormous and mysterious world he had found to be filled with monstrous races inhabiting wild forests, and with golden people living in Eden.” – David E. Stannard, historian, American Holocaust: Columbus and the Conquest of the New World, 1992
Which of the following European nations would be the least likely to share the characteristics Stannard uses in describing Columbus?
England
Italy
Portugal
Spain
Comparison

9. What skill is this question assessing?
“These at the heads of James and York rivers…grew impatient at the many slaughters of their neighbors and rose for own defense, who choosing Mr. Bacon for their leader, sent oftentimes to the Governor,…beseeching a commission to go against the Indians at their own charge; which his Honor as often promised, but did not send…. “During these protractions and people often slain, most or all the officers, civil and military,…met and concerted together, the danger of going without a commission on the part and the continual murders of going without a commission on the one part and the continual murders of their neighbors on the other part….This day lapsing and no commission come, they marched into the wilderness in quest of theses Indians, after whom the Governor sent his proclamation, denouncing all rebels who should not return within a limited day; whereupon those of estates obeyed. But Mr. Bacon, with fifty-seven men, proceeded…They fired and…slew 150 Indians.” -Samuel Kercheval, Virginia author and lawyer, “On Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia,” 1833
Bacon’s Rebellion was initiated by a group of farmers who felt most directly threatened by
An increase in royal taxes
The power of large planters
Conflicts with American Indians
The growth of the slave trade
Causation

10. Skills Assessed on Monday’s Test
Use of Evidence (MC)
Comparison (MC)
Causation (MC)
Contextualization (MC)
Perspective/Point of View (SA)
Argumentation (SA)
Make sure each of these are defined in your notes…if not, look at the SKILLS link on the Course Information page on my website for USH

11. 7 Multiple Choice questions 1 Short Answer (ID type question)
Monday’s Test!
7 Multiple Choice questions
1 Short Answer (ID type question)
Review Sheet due Monday!
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