Name: Regents US History Stimulus-Based M-C, 1920s-30s + Online Access
SKU: 64ca69c31a627a001926536e
Price: 39.99 USD
Availability: InStock

About this resource

What's inside this resource

Thirty-eight stimulus-based multiple-choice questions on 1920s-30s U.S. history — covering the Scopes Trial, the Harlem Renaissance, Marcus Garvey, Prohibition, the Ku Klux Klan, the stock market crash, and the Dust Bowl — each ask students to interpret a referenced political cartoon, photograph, speech excerpt, or article. The file is exported from a third-party platform, InnovationAssessments.com, in four parallel formats: an HTML file, a plain-text question list, a spreadsheet-import CSV, and 12 separate screenshot images that the questions reference but that were not text-extractable in this pass, so the actual cartoons, photos, and excerpts students must analyze are not verifiable here. A README explains that the ZIP also includes a student/teacher passcode for taking the questions online or importing them into a personal InnovationAssessments.com account, and promotes a 60-day free trial of that separate subscription service. In every one of the 38 questions, both the plain-text file and the CSV list answer choice 'A' as correct, which is either a data-export artifact (the correct answer stored first before online shuffling) or a genuine answer-key defect — either way, using the static text or CSV export directly with students would make the correct answer trivially guessable. For the government response that followed the crash and Depression years covered here, a New Deal alphabet agencies graphic organizer sorts FDR's programs by Relief, Recovery, and Reform.

Product description

From the author

New York State Regents US History Stimulus-Based Multiple Choice, Prosperity and Depression + Online Access This 38-question assessment follows the updated New York State Regents exam format for 11th grade US History. Students analyze documents, maps, and images to evaluate historical context, point of view, purpose, bias, etc. Using background knowledge, they identify location, time period, format, audience, and more. Initially challenging, these skills build over time. Use the standardized scoring calculator to adjust early scores. Assign at unit endings to check skills. Use files to print tests or import questions into spreadsheets and online test platforms. With practice, students grow document analysis abilities essential for the new Regents. Purchase includes all files needed: HTML, CSV, images, and import passcode for test question banks.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Interpret a political cartoon, photograph, or excerpt to identify its historical topic, point of view, and intended audience.
Analyze primary-source stimuli related to the Scopes Trial, Prohibition, the Harlem Renaissance, and the 1929 stock market crash.
Evaluate a cartoonist's or author's point of view and identify claims supported by a given historical source.

Teaching tips

Do not distribute the plain-text or CSV export directly to students as a printed test, since both list answer choice A as correct for all 38 questions, which would make the correct answer obvious without any content knowledge.
Confirm you can access all 12 referenced screenshot images before assigning any question, since every question depends on a specific image, photo, or excerpt that isn't described in the question text itself.
Review the licensing and access terms of InnovationAssessments.com before sharing the included import passcode, since the file grants online access tied to a specific named teacher's virtual classroom.

Skills covered

Primary source and political cartoon analysis — students identify a cartoonist's point of view, intended audience, and historical topic from a visual stimulus.
Claim evaluation — students determine which answer choice is best supported by a given article, speech, or photograph excerpt.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

Every one of the 38 questions in both the text file and the spreadsheet lists 'A' as the correct answer — is that a mistake or is the actual answer choice order different from what's shown?

It's unclear from the file alone: this could be a genuine answer-key defect, or it could reflect an export convention where the correct choice is always stored first (as 'A') before the online platform shuffles the order for students — either way, printing or using the plain-text/CSV export as-is would make the correct answer guessable without any content knowledge.

The download includes an 'import_passcode.txt' file — what is that passcode actually for?

It's a third-party access code for InnovationAssessments.com: the README explains students can use it to take the questions online at a specific URL, or a subscribing teacher can use it to import the questions into their own test bank on that platform, separate from Teach Simple.