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| About the Authors | p. xv |
| The Basics | |
| About the SAT Subject Test: U.S. History | p. 3 |
| Frequently Asked Questions on the SAT Subject Test | p. 3 |
| Understanding the SAT Subject Test: U.S. History | p. 6 |
| Strategies to Test Your Best | p. 9 |
| Know the Directions | p. 9 |
| Know the Format | p. 10 |
| Skip the Difficult Questions; Come Back to Them Later | ... MORE |
| Be a Good Guesser | p. 10 |
| Be a Good Gridder | p. 11 |
| Think About the Questions Before You Look at the Answers | p. 11 |
| Pace Yourself | p. 12 |
| Stress Management | p. 12 |
| The Days Before the Test | p. 16 |
| The Next Step | p. 18 |
| Diagnostic Test | |
| Diagnostic Test | p. 19 |
| How to Take the Diagnostic Test | p. 20 |
| How to Calculate Your Score | p. 21 |
| Answer Key | p. 46 |
| Answers and Explanations | p. 47 |
| U.S. History Review | |
| The Meeting of Three Peoples | p. 67 |
| Timeline | p. 67 |
| Important People, Places, Events, and Concepts | p. 67 |
| Introduction | p. 68 |
| Native Peoples of the Americas on the Eve of Contact with Europeans | p. 68 |
| Europe and the Background of Exploration | p. 69 |
| Africa and the Slave Trade | p. 71 |
| Results of Exploration | p. 72 |
| Summary | p. 72 |
| Review Questions | p. 73 |
| Answers and Explanations | p. 74 |
| The Colonial Period | p. 75 |
| Timeline | p. 75 |
| Important People, Places, Events, and Concepts | p. 76 |
| Introduction | p. 77 |
| Early Colonial Settlements | p. 78 |
| Southern Colonies | p. 79 |
| New England Colonies | p. 82 |
| New England and Colonial Unity | p. 83 |
| The Middle Colonies | p. 84 |
| Summary | p. 86 |
| Review Questions | p. 87 |
| Answers and Explanations | p. 88 |
| Colonial Society in the 1700s | p. 89 |
| Timeline | p. 89 |
| Important People, Places, Events, and Concepts | p. 89 |
| Introduction | p. 90 |
| Colonial Society by 1750 | p. 90 |
| The French and Indian War (1754-1763) | p. 92 |
| Summary | p. 94 |
| Review Questions | p. 95 |
| Answers and Explanations | p. 96 |
| The American War for Independence | p. 97 |
| Timeline | p. 97 |
| Important People, Places, Events, and Concepts | p. 98 |
| Introduction | p. 98 |
| Colonists Protest British Actions | p. 99 |
| The War of Independence | p. 102 |
| Summary | p. 103 |
| Review Questions | p. 104 |
| Answers and Explanations | p. 105 |
| Experiments in Government | p. 107 |
| Timeline | p. 107 |
| Important People, Places, Events, and Concepts | p. 107 |
| Introduction | p. 108 |
| The Articles of Confederation | p. 108 |
| The Writing of the Constitution | p. 109 |
| Summary | p. 112 |
| Review Questions | p. 113 |
| Answers and Explanations | p. 114 |
| The Federalist Era | p. 115 |
| Timeline | p. 115 |
| Important People, Places, Events, and Concepts | p. 116 |
| Introduction | p. 116 |
| Washington's Administration (1789-1797) | p. 116 |
| The Administration of John Adams (1797-1801) | p. 120 |
| Summary | p. 121 |
| Review Questions | p. 122 |
| Answers and Explanations | p. 123 |
| The Republicans in Power, 1800-1824 | p. 125 |
| Timeline | p. 125 |
| Important People, Places, Events, and Concepts | p. 126 |
| Introduction | p. 126 |
| Jefferson's Administration (1801-1809) | p. 126 |
| The War of 1812 | p. 128 |
| The Era of Good Feeling | p. 129 |
| The Monroe Doctrine | p. 130 |
| The Missouri Compromise | p. 131 |
| Summary | p. 131 |
| Review Questions | p. 132 |
| Answers and Explanations | p. 133 |
| Jacksonian Democracy, 1824-1836 | p. 135 |
| Timeline | p. 135 |
| Important People, Places, Events, and Concepts | p. 135 |
| Introduction | p. 136 |
| Election of 1824 | p. 136 |
| Election of 1828 | p. 136 |
| Indian Removal | p. 137 |
| Bank War | p. 137 |
| Nullification and Slavery | p. 138 |
| Summary | p. 138 |
| Review Questions | p. 139 |
| Answers and Explanations | p. 140 |
| Growth, Slavery, and Reform, 1800-1850 | p. 141 |
| Timeline | p. 141 |
| Important People, Places, Events, and Concepts | p. 142 |
| Introduction | p. 142 |
| Growth | p. 142 |
| Slavery | p. 143 |
| Reform | p. 144 |
| Literature | p. 145 |
| Summary | p. 145 |
| Review Questions | p. 147 |
| Answers and Explanations | p. 148 |
| Expansion, Conflict, and Compromise, 1820-1850 | p. 149 |
| Timeline | p. 149 |
| Important People, Places, Events, and Concepts | p. 150 |
| Introduction | p. 150 |
| The Roots of Conflict | p. 150 |
| Expansion | p. 151 |
| The Compromise of 1850 | p. 152 |
| Summary | p. 153 |
| Review Questions | p. 154 |
| Answers and Explanations | p. 155 |
| Slavery and the Road to Disunion, 1850-1861 | p. 157 |
| Timeline | p. 157 |
| Important People, Places, Events, and Concepts | p. 158 |
| Introduction | p. 158 |
| Conflicts Over Slavery | p. 158 |
| Lincoln and Secession | p. 160 |
| Summary | p. 161 |
| Review Questions | p. 162 |
| Answers and Explanations | p. 163 |
| The Civil War, 1861-1865 | p. 165 |
| Timeline | p. 165 |
| Important People, Places, Events, and Concepts | p. 166 |
| Introduction | p. 166 |
| The Beginning of War | p. 166 |
| Secession | p. 167 |
| The Balance of Forces | p. 167 |
| The War | p. 168 |
| Lincoln and the Politics of Slavery and War | p. 169 |
| Summary | p. 169 |
| Review Questions | p. 170 |
| Answers and Explanations | p. 172 |
| Reconstruction and Its Aftermath, 1865-1896 | p. 173 |
| Timeline | p. 173 |
| Important People, Places, Events, and Concepts | p. 174 |
| Introduction | p. 174 |
| Presidential Reconstruction (1865-1867) | p. 174 |
| Congressional (Radical) Reconstruction (1867-1877) | p. 175 |
| The Post-Reconstruction South (1877-1896) | p. 178 |
| Summary | p. 178 |
| Review Questions | p. 180 |
| Answers and Explanations | p. 181 |
| The Closing of the Frontier, 1876-1900 | p. 183 |
| Timeline | p. 183 |
| Important People, Places, Events, and Concepts | p. 183 |
| Introduction | p. 184 |
| Moving West | p. 184 |
| The Transformation of the West | p. 185 |
| The Removal of Native Americans | p. 186 |
| Summary | p. 188 |
| Review Questions | p. 189 |
| Answers and Explanations | p. 190 |
| Industry, Big Business, and Labor Unions, 1865-1900 | p. 191 |
| Timeline | p. 191 |
| Important People, Places, Events, and Concepts | p. 192 |
| Introduction | p. 192 |
| New Technologies | p. 192 |
| The Rise of Big Business | p. 194 |
| Labor Conflicts (1877-1914) | p. 195 |
| Industry and the South | p. 197 |
| Summary | p. 197 |
| Review Questions | p. 199 |
| Answers and Explanations | p. 200 |
| Society and Culture in the Gilded Age, 1865-1900 | p. 201 |
| Timeline | p. 201 |
| Important People, Places, Events, and Concepts | p. 202 |
| Introduction | p. 202 |
| Urbanization | p. 202 |
| The Impact of Inventions | p. 204 |
| The Changing American Society | p. 205 |
| Summary | p. 207 |
| Review Questions | p. 208 |
| Answers and Explanations | p. 209 |
| Politics of the Gilded Age, 1877-1900 | p. 211 |
| Timeline | p. 211 |
| Important People, Places, Events, and Concepts | p. 211 |
| Introduction | p. 212 |
| National Politics | p. 212 |
| Unrest Among Farmers (1867-1896) | p. 213 |
| Summary | p. 215 |
| Review Questions | p. 216 |
| Answers and Explanations | p. 217 |
| Imperialism, 1880-1914 | p. 219 |
| Timeline | p. 219 |
| Important People, Places, Events, and Concepts | p. 220 |
| Introduction | p. 220 |
| Causes of American Imperialism | p. 220 |
| The United States as an Imperialist Power | p. 221 |
| Summary | p. 224 |
| Review Questions | p. 225 |
| Answers and Explanations | p. 226 |
| The Progressive Era, 1900-1920 | p. 227 |
| Timeline | p. 227 |
| Important People, Places, Events, and Concepts | p. 228 |
| Introduction | p. 228 |
| Background and Influences | p. 228 |
| Progressive Reformers | p. 229 |
| Progressive Issues | p. 229 |
| Progressive Presidents | p. 231 |
| African Americans in Progressive Era | p. 232 |
| Summary | p. 232 |
| Review Questions | p. 233 |
| Answers and Explanations | p. 234 |
| The United States and World War I, 1914-1920 | p. 235 |
| Timeline | p. 235 |
| Important People, Places, Events, and Concepts | p. 236 |
| Introduction | p. 236 |
| The World at War | p. 236 |
| The United States Remains Neutral | p. 237 |
| "Over There": The United States at War | p. 238 |
| Wilson, Peace, and the League of Nations | p. 238 |
| Summary | p. 239 |
| Review Questions | p. 240 |
| Answers and Explanations | p. 242 |
| Tradition and Change in the 1920s | p. 243 |
| Timeline | p. 243 |
| Important People, Places, Events, and Concepts | p. 244 |
| Introduction | p. 244 |
| Politics: The Return to Normalcy | p. 245 |
| Economic Conditions | p. 246 |
| Society in the 1920s | p. 248 |
| Tradition and Reaction | p. 249 |
| Culture of the 1920s | p. 251 |
| Summary | p. 252 |
| Review Questions | p. 253 |
| Answers and Explanations | p. 254 |
| The Crash, the Depression, and the New Deal | p. 255 |
| Timeline | p. 255 |
| Important People, Places, Events, and Concepts | p. 256 |
| Introduction | p. 256 |
| Causes of the Depression | p. 256 |
| Hoover's Response to the Crisis | p. 257 |
| Roosevelt's New Deal | p. 258 |
| Reaction to the New Deal | p. 259 |
| Summary | p. 260 |
| Review Questions | p. 261 |
| Answers and Explanations | p. 262 |
| Politics and Society in the 1930s | p. 263 |
| Timeline | p. 263 |
| Important People, Places, Events, and Concepts | p. 263 |
| Introduction | p. 264 |
| Growth in the 1930s | p. 264 |
| Political Developments of the 1930s | p. 265 |
| Culture of the 1930s | p. 266 |
| The Depression and Social Groups | p. 266 |
| Summary | p. 268 |
| Review Questions | p. 269 |
| Answers and Explanations | p. 270 |
| World War II: From Neutrality to Hiroshima, 1936-1945 | p. 271 |
| Timeline | p. 271 |
| Important People, Places, Events, and Concepts | p. 272 |
| Introduction | p. 272 |
| The Winds of War in Europe | p. 273 |
| The U.S. Response to Pearl Harbor | p. 273 |
| The Home Front | p. 275 |
| The United States at War in Europe | p. 275 |
| The United States at War in the Pacific | p. 276 |
| Summary | p. 277 |
| Review Questions | p. 277 |
| Answers and Explanations | p. 278 |
| The Cold War, 1945-1963 | p. 279 |
| Timeline | p. 279 |
| Important People, Places, Events, and Concepts | p. 280 |
| Introduction | p. 280 |
| Agreements During World War II (1943-1945) | p. 281 |
| Soviet Satellites in Eastern Europe | p. 282 |
| The Arms Race | p. 284 |
| Other Global Signs of the Cold War | p. 286 |
| Summary | p. 287 |
| Review Questions | p. 288 |
| Answers and Explanations | p. 289 |
| Affluence and Conservatism, 1946-1960 | p. 291 |
| Timeline | p. 291 |
| Important People, Places, Events, and Concepts | p. 292 |
| Introduction | p. 292 |
| Political Developments | p. 292 |
| Economic Growth | p. 294 |
| Social Trends in the 1950s | p. 295 |
| 1950s Culture | p. 296 |
| Summary | p. 297 |
| Review Questions | p. 298 |
| Answers and Explanations | p. 299 |
| The Kennedy and Johnson Years | p. 301 |
| Timeline | p. 301 |
| Important People, Places, Events, and Concepts | p. 302 |
| Introduction | p. 302 |
| The Kennedy Administration (1961-1963) | p. 302 |
| The Johnson Administration (1963-1969) | p. 304 |
| Summary | p. 306 |
| Review Questions | p. 307 |
| Answers and Explanations | p. 308 |
| The Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968 | p. 309 |
| Timeline | p. 309 |
| Important People, Places, Events, and Concepts | p. 310 |
| Introduction | p. 311 |
| Roots of the Civil Rights Movement | p. 311 |
| Martin Luther King Jr | p. 312 |
| Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee | p. 313 |
| Violence | p. 314 |
| Role of Government | p. 315 |
| Summary | p. 315 |
| Review Questions | p. 317 |
| Answers and Explanations | p. 318 |
| The Vietnam War, 1954-1975 | p. 319 |
| Timeline | p. 319 |
| Important People, Places, Events, and Concepts | p. 320 |
| Introduction | p. 320 |
| The Growing American Involvement in Vietnam | p. 321 |
| The War | p. 322 |
| The Growing Antiwar Protest | p. 323 |
| Nixon and the War | p. 324 |
| The End of the War | p. 325 |
| Results | p. 325 |
| Summary | p. 326 |
| Review Questions | p. 327 |
| Answers and Explanations | p. 328 |
| Cultural and Social Change in the 1960s | p. 329 |
| Timeline | p. 329 |
| Important People, Places, Events, and Concepts | p. 330 |
| Introduction | p. 330 |
| The Political Activists | p. 330 |
| Political Organizations | p. 331 |
| Currents in History Writing | p. 333 |
| Music | p. 333 |
| Hippies | p. 334 |
| Summary | p. 335 |
| Review Questions | p. 336 |
| Answers and Explanations | p. 337 |
| Politics and Society, 1968-1980 | p. 339 |
| Timeline | p. 339 |
| Important People, Places, Events, and Concepts | p. 340 |
| Introduction | p. 340 |
| Social Issues | p. 340 |
| Feminism | p. 341 |
| The Environment | p. 342 |
| The Economy | p. 342 |
| Foreign Affairs | p. 342 |
| The Watergate Scandal | p. 343 |
| The Carter Administration | p. 344 |
| Summary | p. 344 |
| Review Questions | p. 346 |
| Answers and Explanations | p. 348 |
| The Triumph of Conservatism, 1980-1992 | p. 349 |
| Timeline | p. 349 |
| Important People, Places, Events, and Concepts | p. 350 |
| Introduction | p. 350 |
| Election of 1980 | p. 350 |
| Domestic Affairs | p. 351 |
| Foreign Policy | p. 352 |
| The Iran-Contra Affair | p. 352 |
| Election of 1988 | p. 353 |
| The First Bush Presidency | p. 353 |
| Summary | p. 354 |
| Review Questions | p. 355 |
| Answers and Explanations | p. 356 |
| America at the Turn of the Century | p. 357 |
| Timeline | p. 357 |
| Important People, Places, Events, and Concepts | p. 358 |
| Introduction | p. 358 |
| Clinton as President | p. 358 |
| The Contested Election of 2000 | p. 361 |
| The Global Economy | p. 362 |
| Multiculturalism | p. 363 |
| Ecological Challenges at the Dawn of a New Century | p. 363 |
| Terrorism in the 21st Century | p. 363 |
| Summary | p. 364 |
| Review Questions | p. 365 |
| Answers and Explanations | p. 366 |
| Practice Tests | |
| How to Take the Practice Tests | p. 368 |
| How to Calculate Your Score | p. 369 |
| Practice Test 1 | p. 371 |
| Answer Key | p. 392 |
| Answers and Explanations | p. 393 |
| Practice Test 2 | p. 411 |
| Answer Key | p. 432 |
| Answers and Explanations | p. 433 |
| Practice Test 3 | p. 453 |
| Answer Key | p. 478 |
| Answers and Explanations | p. 479 |
| Glossary | p. 495 |
| Index | p. 503 |
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