U.S. History
Frequently Asked Questions
Welcome to U.S. History!
Welcome to Albert's U.S. History course!
This page provides specific content-related information for Albert's U.S. History course, including how it is organized, how to find questions using standards or tags, and ideas for classroom uses. If you need technical assistance, please visit our Help Center or contact hello@albert.io.
Subject Organization
Albert's U.S. History is organized by content themes and further broken down into topics.
Themes
Our full U.S. History subject guide is designed to include 12 themes:
- Early America
- The American Revolution
- Expansion, Nationalism, and Sectionalism
- The Civil War and Reconstruction
- Industrialization and Urbanization
- Imperialism and Western Expansion
- WWI
- Prosperity and Depression
- WWII
- The Cold War Era
- Civil Rights and Social Change
- Contemporary America
Topics
Each theme contains more specific topics. For example, here are the topics within Theme 5 | "Industrialization and Urbanization":
- The Gilded Age
- Immigration and Reform
Assessments
In addition to our practice guide, US History includes topic quizzes that include questions unique from those in our practice guide. Many of our course themes have topic quizzes at this point, with more to come!
Free Response Questions
US History includes two types of Free Response Questions: Document-Based Questions and Short Answer Questions. Each one contains a rubric, sample answer, and explanation to assist with students' development of historical writing skills.
Using Standards and Tags to Find Questions
Standards
All Albert questions are aligned to state standards relevant to the subject matter.
This standards-alignment provides another easy way to find useful questions besides the Theme and Topic organization. Using the Standards button at the top left corner of any subject page, you can filter for just your state’s standard set then simply search for your state’s standards to find all questions in our course library aligned to that standard! For more details, please see this article in our Help section.
This course also includes Albert’s own Social Studies Standards, which can also be used to search for content. The standards follow the format of Albert US.1.A.1 for content standards and Albert US Skill 1.A.1 for skills standards.
In addition to searching by the standards’ names, you can also search by their content! Simply type in a few words from the standard description to see all relevant standards pertaining to that content.
Tags
Albert’s courses include two types of tags: content and skill. These are words or phrases that provide information about what a question covers, such as the content tag presidential-elections or skills tag point-of-view. Tags provide another easy way to search for relevant content in our course library. Simply search using the Tags button at the top left corner of any guide level. Tags are all one to three words long, connected by a dash.
Question Types
US History uses a variety of question types to test students’ understanding of content and provide meaningful practice of important skills.
- Multiple Choice
- Multiple Select
- Two-Way Tables
- Fill-in-the-blank
- Snippet Select
- Free Response
- Document-Based Questions
- Short Answer Questions
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