SAT Ⅱ美国历史

PART I. INTRODUCTION TO THE SAT SUBJECT TEST: U.S. HISTORY

All About the SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Test

The SAT Subject Tests

The SAT U.S. History Test

Test-Taking Strategies for the U.S. History Test

Diagnostic Test: U.S. History

Answer Key

Answers and Explanations

PART II. TOPIC REVIEW FOR THE U.S. HISTORY TEST

Chapter 1. Pre-Columbian America and the Age of Exploration

The First Americans ? European Voyages of Discovery in the New

World ?

Clashes between Native Americans and Europeans

Chapter 2. English Colonial Settlements

English Expansion in the New World ? Early Attempts: Roanoke

and

Jamestown ? Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay ? Connecticut and

PART I. INTRODUCTION TO THE SAT SUBJECT TEST: U.S. HISTORY

All About the SAT Subject Test: U.S. History Test

The SAT Subject Tests

The SAT U.S. History Test

Test-Taking Strategies for the U.S. History Test

Diagnostic Test: U.S. History

Answer Key

Answers and Explanations

PART II. TOPIC REVIEW FOR THE U.S. HISTORY TEST

Chapter 1. Pre-Columbian America and the Age of Exploration

The First Americans ? European Voyages of Discovery in the New

World ?

Clashes between Native Americans and Europeans

Chapter 2. English Colonial Settlements

English Expansion in the New World ? Early Attempts: Roanoke

and

Jamestown ? Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay ? Connecticut and

Rhode Island ? The Southern Colonies ? The Mid-Atlantic Colonies

?

Tension between Colonists and Native Americans

Chapter 3. Colonial Life

Family and Community Life ? The Growth of Slavery ? Changes

from

Literacy, Education, and the Enlightenment ? Changes from Religion

and

the Great Awakening ? Political Developments

Chapter 4. Conflicts in the Colonial Era

English against French ? The French and Indian War ? George

Washington ?

The Native American Role in the French and Indian War ? Effects

and

Aftermath of the French and Indian War

Chapter 5. The Road to Revolution

The French and Indian War: Its Results and Aftermath ? The Sugar

Act ?

The Stamp Act ? The Townshend Acts and Illegal Taxation ? The

Boston

Massacre ? The Boston Tea Party ? The Results of the Boston Tea

Party ?

The First Continental Congress and Its Accomplishments

Chapter 6. The American Revolution

The “Shot Heard Round the World” ? The Siege of Boston ? From

Common

Sense to the Declaration of Independence ? Washington Moves to

Victory ?

Colonial Soldiers ? Key Battles at Brandywine and Saratoga ? The

War

Turns in Favor of the Colonists ? War Ends with the Treaty of

Paris

Chapter 7. The Articles of Confederation

The Country’s First Constitution ? The Power of the Legislative

Branch ?

Executive and Judicial Powers ? Ratification ? Effects of the

Articles of

Confederation: The Northwest Ordinance ? Effects of the Articles

of

Confederation: The Economy

Chapter 8. The Constitution

Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention ? The Great Compromise

?

A Look at the Constitution ? Checks and Balances in the

Constitution ?

The Ratification Process ? The Early Days of the Constitution ? The

Bill of

Rights Becomes Part of the Constitution

Chapter 9. Establishing a New Nation

The Challenge of Organizing the New Government ? Washington

and

European Affairs ? The Adams Administration ? Jefferson Is

Elected

President in 1800 ? The Louisiana Purchase ? The Embargo Act

?

The War of 1

Chapter 10. The Early Nineteenth Century

Foreign Relations and the Monroe Doctrine ? Economic Changes and

the

Industrial Revolution ? John Quincy Adams ? The Spread of Slavery

and

the Missouri Compromise ? Andrew Jackson and Native American

Policy

Chapter 11. Religion and Reform

Political Developments ? Literature ? The Second Great Awakening

?

The Abolitionist Movement ? Women’s Rights ?

Limits of Antebellum Reform

Chapter 12. The Market Revolution, 1812–1845

The Market Economy ? Economic Panic ? The Northern Economy ?

Growth of Immigration and Labor Unions ? The Southern Economy

Chapter 13. National Expansion and Sectional Division,

1830–1850

“Manifest Destiny” ? The Republic of Texas ? The Mexican War

?

The Election of 1848 ? California Gold ? The Compromise of 1850

?

The Gadsden Purchase ? The Fate of the Plains Tribes

Chapter 14. A House Divided, 1820–1860

Sectional Division ? The Abolitionist Movement ? New Political

Parties ?

Kansas-Nebraska Act ? John Brown and “Bleeding Kansas” ?

Dred Scott Decision ? The Lincoln-Douglas Debates ? Harpers Ferry

?

The Election of 1

Chapter 15. The Civil War, 1861–1865

President Abraham Lincoln ? Strengths and Weaknesses of the North

and

the South ? The Start of the War ? War over the Mississippi ? The

Army of

the Potomac ? The Emancipation Proclamation ? Gettysburg: The

Turning

Point ? The War of Attrition ? The Assassination of Lincoln

Chapter 16. Reconstruction, 1865–1877

Reconstruction Plans under Lincoln ? Reconstruction under Andrew

Johnson ?

Congress Takes Action ? Radical Reconstruction ? The Impeachment

of

Andrew Johnson ? The Election of 1868 ? 1876: Election and

Compromise ?

The Rise of Jim Crow Laws

Chapter 17. Westward Movement, 1860–1898

Conflicts with Native Americans in the Great Plains ? Settling the

Plains

and the West ? Farming ? Ranching ? Mining

Chapter 18. The Rise of Big Business and the Gilded Age,

1870–1896

Technological Revolutions ? The Growth of Big Business ?

Industrialization and Workers ? The Great Strikes ? Social

Classes

Chapter 19. Politics and the Call for Reform, 1865–1900

The Rise of the Big Cities ? Big-City Politics ?

Politics in Washington ? Populism

Chapter 20. Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Movement,

1900–1920

The Progressive Era ? The Muckrakers ? Reform under Roosevelt

?

Economic Reforms ? Conservation and the Environment ? Political

Reform ?

Reform under Taft ? Reform under Wilson ? The Nineteenth

Amendment

Chapter 21. The United States Becomes a World Power

Pressure to Expand ? China and Japan ? Hawaii ? The

Spanish-American

War ? After the War: The Philippines ? After the War: Cuba

and

Puerto Rico ? The Panama Canal ? Promoting Economic Growth

Chapter 22. World War I and Its Aftermath, 1914–1920

Causes of World War I ? The United States Enters the War ? The U.S.

Army ?

The Home Front ? The Turning of the Tide: Victory and Armistice ?

Woodrow

Wilson’s Fourteen Points, the Treaty of Versailles, and the League

of

Nations ? Provisions of the Treaty of Versailles ? The Costs of

War

Chapter 23. The Jazz Age

The “Return to Normalcy” ? The Arts ? Politics in the 1920s ?

Social Changes in the 1920s ? Organized Crime: The Black Sox

Scandal

and Prohibition ? The Scopes Trial

Chapter 24. The Great Depression

The Stock Market Crash ? Hoover’s Response to the Depression

?

President and Mrs. Roosevelt ? FDR and the Early Phases of the New

Deal ?

The Second New Deal ? The Dust Bowl ? Escape

Chapter 25. World War II (Part I)

German Expansionism and the Outbreak of World War II ?

1940–1941:

Events in Europe ? U.S. Neutrality ? Pearl Harbor: The United

States Enters

the War ? Mobilization in the United States ? Military Campaigns in

the

Pacific, 1942–1943 ? Military Campaigns in Europe and North

Africa

Chapter 26. World War II (Part II)

Roosevelt’s Fourth Term ? War in North Africa and Europe: 1942–1944

?

Surrender in Europe: VE Day ? War in the Pacific ? Hiroshima and

the

Surrender of Japan ? Results of the War ? The Potsdam

Conference

Chapter 27. Postwar America, 1945–1960

The Founding of the United Nations ? The Beginnings of the Cold War

?

The Korean War ? Anticommunist Hysteria and McCarthyism ? The

Truman

and Eisenhower Administrations ? Social Changes 1945–1960 ? Civil

Rights

Chapter 28. The New Frontier and the Civil Rights Movement

The Election of 1960 ? Domestic Policy: The New Frontier ? Foreign

Policy:

Cuba and Berlin ? The Civil Rights Movement ? Space Race ?

Assassination

Detainees ? Changes on the Supreme Court ? Hurricane Katrina ?

Economic

Chapter 29. The Great Society

Lyndon B. Johnson ? The Great Society ?

Civil Rights ? The Women’s Movement

Chapter 30. The Vietnam War

Background: Vietnam ? The United States Sends Troops ? The

Vietnam

War Expands ? Combat in Vietnam 1965–1968 ? Protest at Home ?

The Tet Offensive

Chapter 31. Watergate and Its Aftermath

The 1968 Election ? Domestic Policy under Nixon ? Foreign Policy

?

Watergate ? The Pardon

Chapter 32. The Reagan Era and the End of the Cold War

The Presidency of Jimmy Carter ? The Election of 1980 ? Reaganomics

?

The End of the Cold War ? The Breakup of the Soviet Union ?

Iran-Contra ?

The Gulf War ? Reagan, Bush, and the Supreme Court ? Bush and

Economic Affairs

Chapter 33. The 1990s and the Early 21st Century

The Election of 1992 ? Clinton’s Domestic Policy ? The Election of

2000 ?

The Presidency of George W. Bush ? September 11, 2001 ? War in Iraq

?

Detainees ? Changes on the Supreme Court ? Hurricane Katrina

?

Economic Crises ? The 2008 Election

PART III. SIX FULL LENGTH PRACTICE TESTS

Practice Test 1

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Practice Test 2

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Practice Test 3

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Practice Test 4

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Practice Test 5

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Practice Test 6

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