US History

This guide is based on the College Entrance Examination Board test in
Advanced Placement United States History. The guide covers what most U.S.
history students study in high school and college.

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Table of Contents

Chapters:
I. Colonial America
II. The Early Republic
III. The
Crisis of the Republic
IV. Wealth, Innovation, and World Power
V. Into
the American Century
VI. America as a Superpower
VII. Hope, Adversity and
Challenges for the New Century

Appendix:
Appendix A: Presidents and Vice Presidents of the United
States
Appendix B: Famous Third Parties
Appendix C: Outline of United
States history
Appendix D: Constitutional documents

I. Colonial America (1690 - 1754)
1. Pre-Columbian Societies
(Before 1492)
2. European History (Before 1492)
3. Transatlantic
Encounters and Colonial Beginnings (1492 - 1690)
4. Colonial North America
(1690 - 1754)

II. The Early Republic (1754 - 1837)
1. The American Revolutionary
Era (1754 - 1789)
2. The Early Republic (1787 - 1810)
3. Jeffersonian
Democracy
4. War, Nationalism, and Division (1812-1837)

III. The Crisis of the Republic (1837 - 1877)
1. Manifest Destiny
and the Slavery Question (1837-1861)
2. A Nation Divided: The American Civil
War (1861-1865)
3. Reconstruction (1865-1877)

IV. Wealth, Innovation, and World Power (1877 - 1913)
1. The
Age of Invention and the Gilded Age (1877 - 1900)
2. The Progressive Era
(1900 - 1914)
3. Advancements

V. Into the American Century (1913 - 1945)
1. The War to End
All Wars (1914 - 1920)
2. The Roaring Twenties (1920 - 1929)
3. The
Great Depression and the New Deal (1929 - 1939)
4. Spanish Civil War
(1936-1939)
5. The World At War (1939 - 1945)

VI. America as a Superpower (1945 - 2001)
1. The Cold War (1945 -
1953)
2. The Fifties (1953 - 1961)
3. The Sixties (1961 - 1969)
4.
National and International Crises (1969 - 1981)
5. The Reagan Revolution
(1981 - 1993)
6. Bush and Clinton presidencies, 1st Gulf War (1989 - 2000)


VII. Hope, Adversity and Challenges for the New Century (2001 -
2009)
1. George W. Bush, September 11, 2nd Gulf War, and Terrorism

2. Growing Crisis with Iran (2002-)
3. Election 2008
4. Obama
5.
Election 2012