Preface
1 Welcome to the SAT Subject Test in U.S. History
Test Registration
How to Use This Book
Three Approaches for Three Review Paces
Introduction to the Test
Multiple-Choice Strategies
Test-Taking Strategies
Final Advice
Diagnostic Test
Answer Key
Test Analysis
Answer Explanations
2 Motives and Methods of European Exploration
3 Spanish, French, and Dutch Colonization
4 English Colonization
5 Colonial "American" Society
6 Mercantilism and Colonial Wars
Mini Quiz
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7 The American Revolution and the War for Independence
8 The Critical Period and the Formation of American Values
9 The Federalist Age
10 The Jeffersonian Revolution and the Era of Good Feelings
11 The War of 1812 and the Age of Jackson
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12 Political Evolution in the Age of Jackson
13 The Reform Impulse
14 The Ramifications of Slavery
15 Expansion and Two Wars with Mexico
16 The Last Attempts at Compromise
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17 The Civil War
18 Reconstruction
19 The Settlement of the West
20 The New American Economy
21 Gilded Age Politics
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22 The Revolt of the Common Man
23 The Progressive Reform Movement
24 Domestic Policy Debate
25 The Spanish-American War and the Imperialism Debate
26 American Involvement in the Great War
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27 The Roaring Twenties: Sex, Alcohol, and Jazz
28 The Stock Market Crash and the Great Depression
29 The Rise and Fall of the New Deal
30 World War II
31 Truman and Eisenhower in Post-War America
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32 The Changing Values of the 1960s
33 The Civil Rights Movement
34 Foreign and Domestic Crises of the Vietnam Era
35 Nixon and the Arms and Space Races
36 Presidents Looking for America
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37 Conservative Resurgence
38 Moderate America
39 Presidential Pendulum in the Information Age
40 American Scientific and Technological Advances
41 Essential Supreme Court Cases
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42 Practice Tests
Practice Test 1
Answer Key
Test Analysis
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Practice Test 2
Answer Key
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Practice Test 3
Answer Key
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Index