Free Practice Questions for NY Regents U.S. History

11.1 Colonial Foundations

European colonization, cultural exchange and conflict, colonial regional differences, labor systems, and early self-government.

11.2 Constitutional Foundations

Revolutionary causes, Declaration of Independence principles, Articles of Confederation weaknesses, Constitution, federalism, checks and balances, Bill of Rights, and early republic precedents.

11.3 Expansion, Nationalism, and Sectionalism

Territorial expansion, market revolution, Jacksonian democracy, reform, slavery expansion, sectional crisis, Civil War, executive power, and the Gettysburg Address.

11.4 Post-Civil War Era

Reconstruction amendments, Black Codes, Jim Crow, Plessy, freedmen's political participation, westward policy, Native American policy, and immigration restriction.

11.5 Industrialization and Urbanization

Industrial growth, business consolidation, immigration, urbanization, labor unions, Populism, Progressive reforms, women's suffrage, temperance, and muckraking.

11.6 The Rise of American Power

Imperialism, Spanish-American War, Panama Canal, Roosevelt Corollary, World War I, neutrality, Fourteen Points, Senate treaty debates, mobilization, and civil liberties.

11.7 Prosperity and Depression

1920s culture and immigration policy, Harlem Renaissance, Great Depression causes, Dust Bowl, Hoover and Roosevelt responses, New Deal, and federal power.

11.8 World War II

Neutrality debates, Pearl Harbor, wartime mobilization, Japanese American incarceration, Korematsu, atomic bomb decision, Holocaust response, Nuremberg, and the United Nations.

11.9 Cold War

Containment, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, NATO, McCarthyism, Korea, Vietnam, nuclear arms race, Cuban missile crisis, detente, Middle East policy, Watergate, and the War Powers Act.

11.10 Social and Economic Change/Domestic Issues

Civil rights movement, modern rights movements, rights of the accused, environmentalism, student rights, Great Society, Reaganomics, Great Recession, health care, and the social safety net.

11.11 The United States in a Changing World

Persian Gulf War, humanitarian intervention debates, September 11, War on Terror, USA PATRIOT Act, Iraq and Afghanistan, globalization, multinational corporations, and U.S.-China competition.

Cross-Topical Social Studies Practices

Gathering and interpreting evidence, chronological reasoning, comparison, contextualization, geographic reasoning, economic reasoning, civic participation, source reliability, and document-based argument.