SAT Subject Test U.S. History with Online Tests

by Kenneth R. Senter M.S., Eugene V. Resnick M.A.

Overview

Note: College Board has discontinued the SAT Subject Tests in the US. The tests will be available outside the US in June 2021 and then be discontinued.

Barron’s SAT Subject Test U.S. History with Online Tests provides realistic practice and up-to-date content review of all test topics.

This edition includes:

• Diagnostic test to help students pinpoint their strengths and weaknesses
• Three full-length practice tests with all questions answered and explained
• Two full-length online practice tests for additional practice
• An in-depth review of U.S. history, starting with European colonization of North America and covering major topics that include: the Civil War and
• Reconstruction, the Great Depression, important Supreme Court cases, and more
• Test-taking strategies and tips for answering multiple-choice questions

Students can also use the book for quick review. Timelines at the beginning of each chapter highlight key events for quick review, and short quizzes with answer explanations are included after every five chapters.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781438010748
Publisher:	Barrons Educational Services
Publication date:	01/01/2018
Edition description:	Fourth Edition
Pages:	640
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 10.80(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Eugene V. Resnick has taught in the Social Studies Department at Midwood High School in Brooklyn, New York, over 25 years; he has taught AP United States History for 18 of those years. He received a Master’s degree in American History from Brooklyn College.

Table of Contents

Preface

1 Welcome to the SAT Subject Test in U.S. History
Test Registration
How to Use This Book
Three Approaches for Three Review Paces
Introduction to the Test
Multiple-Choice Strategies
Test-Taking Strategies
Final Advice
Diagnostic Test
Answer Key
Test Analysis
Answer Explanations

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
Mini Quiz
Answer Explanations

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
Mini Quiz
Answer Explanations

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
Mini Quiz
Answer Explanations

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
Mini Quiz
Answer Explanations

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
Mini Quiz
Answer Explanations

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
Answer Explanations

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
Mini Quiz
Answer Explanations

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
Mini Quiz
Answer Explanations

42 Practice Tests
Practice Test 1
Answer Key
Test Analysis
Answer Explanations
Practice Test 2
Answer Key
Test Analysis
Answer Explanations
Practice Test 3
Answer Key
Test Analysis
Answer Explanations
Index