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Barron's SAT subject test U.S. history, Kenneth R. Senter, B.A., M.S., Oak Ridge High School, Oak Ridge, Tennessee

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Barron's SAT subject test U.S. history

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Kenneth R. Senter, B.A., M.S., Oak Ridge High School, Oak Ridge, Tennessee

Offers information on test-taking strategies and tips for answering multiple-choice questions, chapter reviews covering all historical eras, and four full-length practice tests with answers and explanations

Welcome to the SAT Subject Test in U.S. history ; Diagnostic test -- Motives and methods of European exploration -- Spanish, French, and Dutch colonization -- English colonization -- Colonial "American" society -- Mercantilism and Colonial wars -- The American Revolution and the War for Independence -- The critical period and the formation of American values -- The Federalist age -- The Jeffersonian Revolution and the Era pf Good Feelings -- The War of 1812 and the Age of Jackson -- Political evolution in the Age of Jackson -- The reform impulse -- The ramification of slavery -- Expansion and two wars with Mexico -- The last attempts at compromise -- The civil War -- Reconstruction -- The settlement of the West -- The new American economy -- Gilded Age politics -- The revolt of the common man -- The Progressive Reform movement -- Domestic policy debate -- The Spanish-American War and the imperialism debate -- American involvement in the Great War -- The Roaring Twenties : sec, alcohol, and jazz -- The stock market crash and the Great Depression -- The rise and fall of the New Deal -- World War II -- Truman and Eisenhower in post-War America -- The changing values of the 1960s -- The Civil Rights movement -- Foreign and domestic crises of the Vietnam era -- Nixon and the arms and space races -- Presidents looking for America -- Conservative resurgence -- Moderate America -- Presidential pendulum in the Information Age -- American scientific and technological advances -- Essential Supreme Court cases -- Practice tests

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