Contents

About the Authors How to Use This Book A Special Note to International Students

Section One: The Basics: Understanding the Test

Chapter 1: About the SAT II: U.S. History Test

Chapter 2: Strategies to Test Your Best

Section Two: U.S. History Review

Practice Test 1: Diagnostic Test

Answers and Explanations to Practice Test 1

Chapter 3: The Meeting of Three Peoples

Chapter 4: The Colonial Period

Chapter 5: Colonial Society in the 1700s

Chapter 6: The American War for Independence

Chapter 7: Experiments in Government

Chapter 8: The Federalist Era

Chapter 9: The Republicans in Power, 1800-1828

Chapter 10: Jacksonian Democracy, 1828-1836

Chapter 11: Growth, Slavery, and Reform, 1830-1850

Chapter 12: Expansion, Conflict, and Compromise, 1820-1850

Chapter 13: Slavery and the Road to Disunion, 1850-1861

Chapter 14: The Civil War, 1861-1865

Chapter 15: Reconstruction and Its Aftermath, 1865-1896

Chapter 16: The Closing of the Frontier, 1876-1900

Chapter 17: Industry, Big Business, and Labor Unions, 1865-1900

Chapter 18: Society and Culture in the Gilded Age, 1865-1900

Chapter 19: Politics of the Gilded Age, 1877-1900

Chapter 20: Imperialism, 1880-1914

Chapter 21: The Progressive Era, 1900-1920

Chapter 22: The United States and World War I, 1914-1920

Chapter 23: Tradition and Change in the 1920s

Chapter 24: The Crash, The Depression, and the New Deal

Chapter 25: Politics and Society in the 1930s

Chapter 26: World War II: From Neutrality to Hiroshima, 1936-1945

Chapter 27: The Cold War, 1945-1963

Chapter 28: Affluence and Conservatism, 1946-1960

Chapter 29: The Kennedy and Johnson Years

Chapter 30: The Civil Rights Movement, 1954-68

Chapter 31: The Vietnam War, 1954-1975

Chapter 32: Culture and Social Change in the 1960s

Chapter 33: Politics and Society, 1968-1980

Chapter 34: The Triumph of Conservatism, 1980-1992

Chapter 35: America at the Turn of the Century

Section Three: Ready, Set, Go!

Chapter 36: The Final Countdown

Practice Tests and Explanations

Practice Test 2

Answers and Explanations to Practice Test 2

Practice Test 3

Answers and Explanations to Practice Test 3

Practice Test 4

Answers and Explanations to Practice Test 4