Florida US History End-of-Course Assessment Test Item Specifications

U.S. History End-of-Course Assessment
SS.912.A.5.3
BENCHMARK SS.912.A.5.3
Strand A American History
Reporting Category
Global Military, Political, and Economic Challenges
Standard 5 Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression
Analyze the effects of the changing social, political, and economic
conditions of the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression.
Benchmark SS.912.A.5.3 Examine the impact of United States foreign
economic policy during the 1920s.
Also Assesses SS.912.A.5.1 Discuss the economic outcomes of demobilization.
Benchmark
Clarifications
Content Limits
Stimulus Attribute
Content Focus
SS.912.A.5.12 Examine key events and people in Florida history
as they relate to United States history.
Students will recognize that while the United States shaped
isolationist political policies, it greatly expanded its economic ties to
Europe and developed an industrial economy that conducted business
in global markets.
Students will examine the extent to which United States economic
foreign policy led to prosperity at home and abroad.
Items will not require complex application or interpretation of
economic graphs such as supply and demand curves.
Items will be limited to the interpretation of broader economic
concepts that should be addressed in historical contexts.
Items should not overemphasize economics but should provide
balance among social, political, and economic effects of foreign
economic policies.
Items addressing United States foreign economic policy will use
historical documents and other relevant stimuli (e.g., maps, timelines,
charts, graphs, tables).
These terms are given in addition to those found in the standards,
benchmarks, and benchmark clarifications. Additional items may
include, but are not limited to, the following: anarchists,
Communists, Dawes Plan, demobilization, disarmament, flappers,
Fordney-McCumber Act, impact of climate and natural disasters,
Jazz Age, Prohibition, Red Scare, Roaring Twenties, Sacco and
Vanzetti, tariffs, Teapot Dome.
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