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U.S. History
Practice
Free Response
Assessments
Overview
1
| Early America
Short Answer Questions
1 question
SAQ: Comparison of Colonial Regions
Stimulus-Based Short Essay Questions
2 questions
Stimulus-Based SAQ: The Age of Exploration
Stimulus-Based SAQ: Ratification of the Constitution
2
| The American Revolution
Short Answer Questions
1 question
SAQ: Main Cause of the Revolutionary War
Stimulus-Based Short Essay Questions
1 question
Stimulus-Based SAQ: The Stamp Act
Document Based Question
7 questions
Document 1: Women in the New Republic
Document 2: "Description of the American People"
Document 3a and 3b: Shays's Rebellion
Document 4: "County Election"
Document 5: Washington's Farewell Address
Document 6: "Letter of Cato"
DBQ Essay Prompt: Political Freedoms in the Early Republic
3
| Expansion, Nationalism, and Sectionalism
Short Answer Questions
2 questions
SAQ: The Effects of the War of 1812
SAQ: The Mexican-American War
Stimulus-Based Short Essay Questions
2 questions
Stimulus-Based SAQ: The Indian Removal Act
Stimulus-Based SAQ: Andrew Jackson
Document Based Question
7 questions
Document 1: Tecumseh
Document 2: Congressional Debate on War
Document 3: War of 1812 Cartoon
Documents 4a and 4b: The Barbary Pirates
Document 5: Madison on Internal Improvements
Documents 6a and 6b: The Hartford Convention
DBQ Essay Prompt: National Security in the New Nation
4
| The Civil War
Stimulus-Based Short Essay Questions
1 question
Stimulus-Based SAQ: Plessy and Jim Crow Laws
Document Based Question
7 questions
Document 1: The Impact of Congressional Reconstruction
Document 2: Elias Hill's Testimony
Document 3: Mississippi Black Codes
Document 4: Sharecropping Contract
Documents 5a and 5b: The Freedman's Bureau
Documents 6a and 6b: Effects of the Compromise of 1877
DBQ Essay Prompt: African American Rights After the Civil War
5
| Industrialization and Urbanization
Stimulus-Based Short Essay Questions
1 question
Stimulus-Based SAQ: Effects of Muckraking
Document Based Question
7 questions
Document 1:
Out of the Shadow
Document 2: “Chinese Mother's Letter”
Document 3: "The Melting Pot"
Document 4: "Uncle Sam's Lodging House"
Document 5: "The Great Fear"
Documents 6a and 6b:
How the Other Half Lives
DBQ Essay Prompt: Immigrant Rights
6
| Imperialism and Western Expansion
Short Answer Questions
1 question
SAQ: Positions on Imperialism
7
| World War I
Short Answer Questions
1 question
SAQ: U.S. Entry into WWI
Stimulus-Based Short Essay Questions
1 question
Stimulus-Based SAQ: WWI Civil Liberties
Document Based Question
7 questions
Document 1: President Wilson's Declaration of War
Document 2: Alan Seeger's Letter
Documents 3a and 3b: Military Recruitment
Documents 4a and 4b: Sedition Act of 1918
Document 5: Emma Goldman's Speech
Document 6: W.E.B. DuBois in
The Crisis
DBQ Essay Prompt: World War I and Human Rights
8
| Prosperity and Depression
Short Answer Questions
1 question
SAQ: Causes of the Great Depression
Document Based Question
7 questions
DBQ Essay Prompt: Unemployment During the Great Depression
Document 1: Hoover's Radio Address
Documents 2a and 2b: The WPA
Document 3: Women in the New Deal
Documents 4a and 4b: African Americans in the CCC
Document 5: Unemployment Rates Graph
Document 6:
Schechter v United States
Ruling
9
| World War II
Short Answer Questions
1 question
SAQ: The Impact of WWII on Women's Roles
Stimulus-Based Short Essay Questions
1 question
Stimulus-Based SAQ: Civil Rights and WWII
Document Based Questions
7 questions
Documents 1a and 1b: Executive Order 9066
Documents 2a and 2b: Opposition to Japanese Internment
Document 3: War Relocation Authority Circular
Document 4:
Korematsu v. United States
Dissenting Opinion
Document 5: "Behind the News with Arthur Caylor"
Document 6: Eleanor Roosevelt Speech
DBQ Essay Prompt: Japanese American Internment during WWII
10
| The Cold War Era
Short Answer Questions
1 question
SAQ: The Second Red Scare
Document Based Question
7 questions
Document 1: The Domino Theory
Document 2: "Hey! They're Gonna Treat Me Like a Man!"
Document 3: 1964 Republican Nomination Acceptance Speech
Document 4: George M. Garcia Interview
Document 5: John Kerry's Address to Congress
Documents 6a and 6b: The Vietnam War in the Media
DBQ Essay Prompt: American Intervention in the Vietnam War
11
| Civil Rights and Social Change
Stimulus-Based Short Essay Questions
2 questions
Stimulus-Based SAQ: Voting Rights Act of 1965
Stimulus-Based SAQ: The Equal Right Amendment
12
| Contemporary America
Short Answer Questions
1 question
SAQ: The Presidential Election of 2000
Document Based Question
7 questions
Document 1: The USA PATRIOT Act
Document 2: The Department of Homeland Security
Document 3: "Hijacking Civil Liberties"
Document 4: Remarks of the Attorney General
Document 5: Arab and Muslim Americans After 9/11
Document 6: "Surveillance Under the Patriot Act"
DBQ Essay Prompt: Civil Liberties Post 9/11