Like Connections to the Philippine-American War, this assessment gauges students' knowledge of the past. Rather than measure whether students can simply recall decontextualized facts, this assessment requires students to make connections across time and construct an argument about how events are connected. Students with a strong sense of the past will be able to explain that defense industry jobs during the war were a major draw of African Americans from Southern states to Northern and Western cities during the Second Great Migration. Strong students will also be able to connect the employment of African Americans in the defense industry to the Civil Rights Movement.
