US History study guides

A deep-dive guide to Module 1 of the New York US History and Government Regents: the colonial foundations and self-government, the causes of the Revolution and the Declaration, the failures of the Articles of Confederation, the principles of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Enduring Issues and stimulus skills the exam tests.

A deep-dive guide to Module 2 of the New York US History and Government Regents: westward expansion and Manifest Destiny, Jacksonian democracy and Indian removal, the antebellum reform movements, the sectional conflict that caused the Civil War, the war and Lincoln's wartime powers, and Reconstruction and its amendments.

A deep-dive guide to Module 3 of the New York US History and Government Regents: post-Civil War industrialization and the Gilded Age, labor, immigration, and urbanization, the Populist response, the Progressive movement and its reforms and amendments, and how to write the Part II Set 1 short essay.

A deep-dive guide to Module 4 of the New York US History and Government Regents: American imperialism and the Spanish-American War, World War I and US entry, the home front and civil liberties (Schenck v. United States), the contradictions of the 1920s, and how to write the Part II Set 2 sourcing short essay.

A deep-dive guide to Module 5 of the New York US History and Government Regents: the Great Depression, the New Deal, World War II and the home front (Korematsu), the Cold War and containment, McCarthyism and the Red Scare, and how to write the Part III Civic Literacy Essay.

A deep-dive guide to Module 6 of the New York US History and Government Regents: the civil rights movement, the expansion of rights (Warren Court, women, other groups), the 1960s and 1970s (Great Society, Vietnam, Watergate), the conservative resurgence and the end of the Cold War, the modern era, and how to answer the Part III A constructed-response questions.