Crossroads: High School Curriculum
Unit VIII: Waves of Reform: 1880s to 1921
Lesson 2
Performance Assessment
All Students
You are to assume the role of the President of the United States. It is your responsibility to provide the United States with leadership and direction on domestic as well as foreign policy. You must create a policy for each situation presented by the expert groups. You may wish to agree or disagree with the possible solution offered by the Senate as well as the recommendations offered by the experts. However, you may benefit by examining the suggestions and solutions of each group in creating your own approaches and solutions for the foreign policy problems confronting the United States.
Your position must be convincing and historically accurate, but it need not be the real policy that any President actually pursued in this historical period.