"Civil Rights No. 1" Regents US History Short Essays

Civil Rights Regents Short Essays for US History Prepare students for the updated New York State Regents US History exam with these short essay tasks designed to build historical document analysis skills. Students will place primary source documents in historical context, identify relationships between events and ideas, analyze how factors like audience and bias affect a document's reliability as a source, and more. Assign one short essay set monthly to develop skills ahead of the exam. This resource contains two full short essay sets modeling the format provided by NYSED, complete with stimulus-based questions, primary source documents, and scoring rubrics. Use these Regents prep materials for whole-class instruction, small group review, homework, or independent exam practice. The short essay tasks promote higher-order thinking and authentic assessment of students' historical analysis abilities.