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AP U.S. History: Rea : the Test Prep Ap Teachers Recommend
by Feldmeth, GregoryEdition:
8th
ISBN13:
9780738606248
ISBN10:
0738606243
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Paperback
Pub. Date:
2/9/2009
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Research & Education Assn
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REA's AP U.S. History Test Prep with CD-ROM TESTwareŽ - For Students Serious About Scoring a 5! New 8th Edition! Our best-selling AP test prep is completely up-to-date through the 2008 Obama presidential election. The book contains a comprehensive review of all the topics covered on the official AP exam, including: the Colonial Period, the American Revolution, the U.S. Constitution, Westward expansion, the Civil War, Reconstruction, Industrialism, World War I, the Great Depression, World War II, the Vietnam Era, Watergate, Carter, and the New Conservatism. Each detailed review chapter contains in-depth historical timelines that help you study smarter and boost your AP score! The book features six full-length practice exams with detailed explanations of answers. The practice tests are composed of every type of question that can be expected on the actual AP U.S. History exam, so you can 'practice for real' and target your strengths and weaknesses before the test. Our interactive TESTwareŽ includes three of the book's practice tests on CD-ROM in a timed format with automatic scoring and instant feedback that simulate test-day conditions. After building your U.S. History knowledge, follow up with REA's proven test-taking strategies and a study schedule that gets you ready for exam day! REA has helped more than a million students succeed on their AP exams! Teachers across the country consider our AP titles to be invaluable resources and consistently recommend our books to their students. Our high-quality test preps are authored by AP experts who have mastered the exam content and teach the course.
Table of Contents
| About Research & Education Association | |
| Staff Acknowledgments | |
| Preparing with Confidence: | |
| Excelling on the AP United States History Exam | |
| About REA's TestWare | |
| About the Exam | |
| About the Review Section | |
| Scoring the Exam | |
| Contacting the AP Program | |
| AP United States History Study Schedule | |
| Ap United States History | |
| Course Review | |
| Pre-Columbian Cultures (12,000 B.C.E-1492 C.E.) | |
| 2,000 Separate Cultures | |
| Highly Organized Society | |
| Some Native Tribes Rendered Nearly Extinct | |
| Historical Timeline | |
| European Exploration and the Colonial Period (1492-1763) | |
| The Age of Exploration | |
| The Beginnings of Colonization | |
| The Colonial World | |
| The 18th Century | |
| Historical Timeline | |
| The American Revolution (1763-1787) | |
| The Coming of the American Revolution | |
| The War for Independence | |
| The Creation of New Governments | |
| Historical Timeline | |
| The United States Constitution (1787-1789) | |
| Development and Ratification | |
| Outline of the United States Constitution | |
| Separation and Limitation of Powers | |
| Historical Timeline | |
| The New Nation (1789-1824) | |
| The Federalist Era | |
| The Establishment of the Executive Departments | |
| Washington's Administration, 1789-1797 | |
| Foreign and Frontier Affairs | |
| Internal Problems | |
| John Adams' Administration, 1797-1801 | |
| Repression and Protest | |
| The Revolution of 1800 | |
| The Jeffersonian Era | |
| Conflict with the Judges | |
| Domestic Affairs | |
| International Involvement | |
| Madison's Administration, 1809-1817 | |
| Postwar Developments | |
| Internal Development, 1820-1830 | |
| The Marshall Court | |
| Statehood: A Balancing Act | |
| The Expanding Economy | |
| The Transportation Revolution | |
| Industrialization | |
| Educational Development | |
| Developments in Religious Life | |
| Historical Timeline | |
| Jacksonian Democracy and Westward | |
| Expansion (1824-1850) | |
| The Jacksonian Democracy, 1829-1841 | |
| The Election of 1824 | |
| The Webster-Hayne Debate (1830) | |
| The War on the Bank | |
| The Election of 1840 | |
| The Meaning of Jacksonian Politics | |
| Ante-bellum Culture: An Age of Reform | |
| The Flowering of Literature | |
| The Fine Arts | |
| The Transcendentalists | |
| The Utopians | |
| The Mormons | |
| Remaking Society: Organized Reform | |
| Diverging Societies-Life in the North | |
| The Role of Women and Minorities | |
| The Northeast Leads the Way | |
| Everyday Life in the North | |
| Diverging Societies-Life in the South | |
| Commerce and Industry | |
| Life in the Southern States | |
| Manifest Destiny and Westward Expansion | |
| Tyler, Polk, and Continued Westward Expansion | |
| Historical Timeline | |
| Sectional Conflict and the Causes of the Civil War (1850-1860) | |
| The Crisis of 1850 and America at Mid-century | |
| The Return of Sectional Conflict | |
| The Coming of the Civil War | |
| Historical Timeline | |
| The Civil War and Reconstruction (1860-1877) | |
| Hostilities Begin | |
| The Union Preserved | |
| The Ordeal of Reconstruction | |
| Historical Timeline | |
| Industrialism, War, and the Progressive Era (1877-1912) | |
| The New Industrial Era, 1877-1882 | |
| Politics of the Period, 1877-1882 | |
| The Economy, 1877-1882 | |
| Social and Cultural Developments, 1877-1882 | |
| Foreign Relations, 1877-1882 | |
| The Reaction to Corporate Industrialism, 1882-1887 | |
| Politics of the Period, 1882-1887 | |
| The Economy, 1882-1887 | |
| Social and Cultural Developments, 1882-1887 1 | |
| Foreign Relations, 1882-1887 | |
| The Emergence of Regional Empire, 1887-1892 | |
| Politics of the Period, 1887-1892 | |
| The Economy, 1887-1892 | |
| Social and Cultural Developments, 1887-1892 | |
| Foreign Relations, 1887-1892 | |
| Economic Depression and Social Crisis, 1892-1897 | |
| The Economy, 1892-1897 | |
| Social and Cultural Developments, 1892-1897 | |
| Foreign Relations, 1892-1897 | |
| War and the Americanization of the World, 1897-1902 | |
| Politics of the Period, 1897-1902 | |
| The Economy, 1897-1902 | |
| Social and Cultural Developments, 1897-1902 | |
| Foreign Policy, 1897-1902 | |
| Theodore Roosevelt and Progressive Reforms, 1902-1907 | |
| Politics of the Period, 1902-1907 | |
| The Economy, 1902-1907 | |
| Social and Cultural Developments, 1902-1907 | |
| Foreign Relations, 1902-1907 | |
| The Regulatory State and the Ordered Society, 1907-1912 | |
| Politics of the Period, 1907-1912 | |
| The Economy, 1907-1912 | |
| Social and Cultural Developments, 1907-1912 | |
| Foreign Relations, 1907-1912 | |
| Historical Timeline | |
| Wilson and World War I (1912-1920) | |
| Implementing the New Freedom: The Early Years of the Wilson Administration | |
| The Triumph of New Nationalism | |
| The Election of 1916 | |
| Social Issues in the First Wilson Administration | |
| Wilson's Foreign Policy and the Road to War | |
| The Road to War in Europe | |
| World War I: The Military Campaign | |
| Mobilizing the Home Front | |
| Wartime Social Trends | |
| Peacemaking and Domestic Problems, 1918-1920 | |
| Domestic Problems and the End of the Wilson Administration | |
| Historical Timeline | |
| The Roaring Twenties and Economic | |
| Collapse (1920-1929) | |
| The Election of 1920 | |
| The Twenties: Economic Advances and Social Tensions | |
| American Society in the 1920s | |
| Social Conflicts | |
| Government and Politics in the 1920s: | |
| The Harding Administration | |
| The Election of 1924 | |
| The Coolidge Administration | |
| The Election of 1928 | |
| Foreign Policy in the Twenties | |
| The Great Depression: The Crash | |
| Historical Timeline | |
| The Great Depression and the New Deal (1929-1941) | |
| Reasons for the Depression | |
| Hoover's Depression Policies | |
| The Election of 1932 | |
| The First New Deal | |
| Legislation of the First New Deal | |
| The Second New Deal: Opposition from the Right and Left | |
| The Second New Deal Begins | |
| The Election of 1936 | |
| The Last Years of the New Deal | |
| Social Dimensions of the New Deal Era | |
| Labor Unions | |
| Cultural Trends of the 1930s | |
| New Deal Diplomacy and the Road to War | |
| United States Neutrality Legislation | |
| Threats to World Order | |
| The American Response to the War in Europe | |
| The Election of 1940 | |
| American Involvement with the European War | |
| The Road to Pearl Harbor | |
| Historical Timeline | |
| World War II and the Postwar Era (1941-1960) | |
| Declared War Begins | |
| The Home Front | |
| The North African and European Theatres | |
| The Pacific Theatre | |
| The Atomic Bomb | |
| Diplomacy | |
| The Emergence of the Cold War and Containment | |
| International Cooperation | |
| Containment in Asia | |
| Eisenhower-Dulles Foreign Policy | |
| The Politics of Affluence: Demobilization and Domestic Policy | |
| The Fair Deal | |
| Anticommunism | |
| Eisenhower's Dynamic Conservatism | |
| Civil Rights | |
| The Election of 1960 | |
| Society and Culture | |
| Demographic Trends | |
| Conformity and Security | |
| Seeds of Rebellion | |
| Historical Timeline | |
| The New Frontier, Vietnam, and Social | |
| Upheaval (1960-1972) | |
| Kennedy's "New Frontier" and the Liberal Revival | |
| Civil Rights | |
| The Cold War Continues | |
| Johnson and the Great Society | |
| Emergence of Black Power | |
| Ethnic Activism | |
| The New Left | |
| The Counterculture | |
| Women's Liberation | |
| Vietnam | |
| Election of 1968 | |
| The Nixon Conservative Reaction | |
| Vietnamization | |
| Foreign Policy | |
| Election of 1972 | |
| Historical Timeline | |
| Watergate, Conservatism's Rise, and Post-Cold War Challenges (1972-2005) | |
| The Watergate Scandal | |
| The Ford Presidency | |
| Carter's Moderate Liberalism | |
| Carter's Foreign Policy | |
| The Iranian Crisis | |
| The Election of 1980 | |
| The Reagan Presidency: Attacking Big Government | |
| Asserting American Power | |
| Election of 1984 | |
| Second-Term Foreign Concerns | |
| Second-Term Domestic Affairs | |
| Election of 1988 | |
| Bush Abandons Reaganomics | |
| Other Domest | |
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Excerpts
PREPARE WITH CONFIDENCE
Excelling on the AP U.S. History Exam
REA gives you all the toolsyou’ll need to master the Advanced Placement Examination in United States History:
* Unrivaled detailed review of all the facts in a context that will sharpen classroom discussion and keep you from having to continually check your textbook for citations as you study.
* Handy timelines that clearly summarize each period’s major events.
* Photographs and other carefully chosen artwork that bring critical events and personalities to life.
* Sidebars that highlight key historical figures and issues.
* Comprehensive index that speeds specific referencing.
* Six full-length, true-to-format practice exams—with 480 multiple-choice items in all—that prepare you for the actual AP exam like no other book.
* Practice Tests 1, 2, and 3, provided on REA’s exclusive TESTware® CD, affording you the benefits of instantaneous, accurate scoring and enforced time conditions.
* Full explanations of every practice-exam answer.
* Complete array of sample essay questions and answers.
Beginning with the 2006 exam, the AP Program’s U.S. History Development Committee has embraced the trend on college and university campuses to view United States history through the prism of social change on the one hand, and cultural and intellectual developments on the other. Our book does likewise.In choosing REA, you’re putting yourself in the company of tens of thousands of AP students who have benefited from our total preparation package year after year.
Moreover, teachers across the nation and beyond find that this book offers a clear-eyed, no-nonsense perspective on the history of the United States of America. In fact, many AP instructors use it to supplement their classroom text and lectures precisely because it so comprehensively supports specific curriculum objectives for the AP course and exam.
ABOUT REA’s TestWare®
Practice tests 1 through 3 of this book are included in two formats: in printed format in this book, and in TestWare® format on the enclosed CD. We strongly recommend that you begin your preparation with the TestWare® practice exams. The software provides the added benefits of automatic, accurate scoring and enforced time conditions. The content and format of the actual AP U.S. History exam are faithfully mirrored.
ABOUT THE EXAM
The Advanced Placement Program is designed to allow high school students to pursue college-level studies while attending high school. The three-hour five-minute AP U.S. History exam is usually given to high school students who have completed a year’s study in a college-level U.S. History course. The test results are then used to determine the awarding of course credit and/or advanced course placement in college.According to the College Board, students taking this exam are called upon to demonstrate “systematic factual knowledge” and bring to bear critical, persuasive analysis of the full sweep of U.S. history. This is why we make every effort to establish and build upon context for you, rather than encouraging rote memorization of disconnected facts.
FORMAT.The AP U.S. History Exam is divided into two sections as follows:
1) Multiple-Choice Items:This section is composed of 80 multiple-choice questions designed to gauge your ability to understand and analyze U.S. history from the Pre-Columbian period to the present. The majority of the questions, however, are based on nineteenth- and twentieth-century history. This section tests factual knowledge, scope of preparation, and knowledge-based analytical skills. You’ll have 55 minutes to complete this section, which accounts for 50 percent of your final grade.
2) Free-Response Items:This section is composed of three essay questions designed to measure your ability to write coherent, intelligent, well-organized essays on historical topics. The essays require you to demonstrate mastery of historical interpretation and the ability to express views and knowledge in writing. The essays may relate documents to different areas, analyze common themes of different time periods, or compare individual and group experiences that reflect socioeconomic, racial, gender, and ethnic differences. Part A consists of a mandatory 15-minute reading period, followed by 45 minutes during which you must answer a document-based question (DBQ), which changes from year to year. In Part B and Part C, you’ll be directed to answer one of two questions presented in each section. You will have 70 minutes to write your essays. The free-response section counts for 50 percent of your final grade.
Test-Taking Tips
If you are not familiar with standardized tests such as the AP United States History exam, there are many ways to acquaint yourself with this type of examination and help alleviate any test-taking anxieties. Listed below are ways to help you become accustomed to the AP exams, some of which may be applied to other standardized tests as well.
Become comfortable with the format of the exam.Stay calm and pace yourself. After simulating the test a couple of times, you will boost your chances of doing well, and you will be able to sit down for the actual exam with more confidence.
Read all of the possible answers.Just because you think you have found the correct response, do not automatically assume that it is the best answer. Read through each choice to be sure that you are not making a mistake by jumping to conclusions.
CONTACTING THE AP PROGRAM
Prospective examinees should download from the College Entrance Examination Board’s website or request by phone the free bulletin offering a general description of the AP Program, including policies and procedures as well as instructions on how to register for the AP Examination in United States History. Here’s how to contact the College Board:
AP Services
P.O. Box 6671
Princeton, NJ 08541-6671
Phone: (609) 771-7300 or (888) 225-5427
Website:http://apcentral.collegeboard.com
E-mail:apexams@info.collegeboard.org
