Preface
1 Welcome to the SAT Subject Test in U.S. History
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
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 Republic in Power
11 The Market Revolution
12 The Age of Jackson
13 The Second Great Awakening and the Reform Impulse
14 The Ramifications of Slavery
15 Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny
16 The Last Attempts at Compromise
17 The Civil War
18 Reconstruction
19 The Settlement of the West
20 The New American Economy
21 Society and Politics in the Gilded Age
22 The Revolt of the Common Man
23 The Progressive Reform Movement
24 Progressivism on the National Level
25 The Spanish-American War and the Imperialism Debate
26 American Involvement in the Great... War
27 The 1920s--A Decade of Contradictions
28 The Great Depression and the New Deal
29 Challenges to the New Deal
30 World War II
31 Cold War Foreign Policy, from Truman to Kennedy
32 Post-War Domestic Issues, 1945 1963
33 The Civil Rights Movement
34 The Rise of Liberalism and Challenges to the Status Quo in the 1960s
35 The War in Vietnam and the Antiwar Movement
36 Politics and Society in the 1970s
37 Conservative Resurgence
38 Centrist Politics in an Increasingly Globalized World--1989 2001
39 Political Developments in the Twenty-First Century
40 American Scientific and Technological Advances
41 Essential Supreme Court Cases
42 Practice Tests
Practice Test 1
Practice Test 2
Practice Test 3
Index