| Introduction to the SAT U.S. History Test | p. 1 |
| All About the SAT U.S. History Test | p. 3 |
| The SAT Subject Tests | p. 3 |
| The SAT U.S. History Test | p. 4 |
| Test-Taking Strategies for the U.S. History Test | p. 7 |
| Diagnostic Test: U.S. History | p. 20 |
| Answer Key | p. 30 |
| Answers and Explanations | p. 31 |
| Topic Review for the U.S. History Test | p. 33 |
| Pre-Columbian America and the Age of Exploration | p. 35 |
| The First Americans | |
| European Voyages of Discovery in the New World | |
| Clashes between Native Americans and Europeans | |
| English Colonial Settlements | p. 44 |
| 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 | |
| Colonial Life | p. 53 |
| Family and Community Life | |
| The Growth of Slavery | |
| Changes from Literacy, Education, and the Englightenment | |
| Changes from Religion and the Great Awakening | |
| Political Developments | |
| Conflicts in the Colonial Era | p. 62 |
| 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 | |
| The Road to Revolution | p. 72 |
| 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 | |
| The American Revolution | p. 82 |
| 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 | |
| The Articles of Confederation | p. 92 |
| 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 | |
| The Constitution | p. 99 |
| 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 | |
| Establishing a New Nation | p. 107 |
| 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 1812 | |
| The Early Nineteenth Century | p. 116 |
| 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 | |
| Religion and Reform | p. 125 |
| Political Developments | |
| Literature | |
| The Second Great Awakening | |
| The Abolitionist Movement | |
| Women's Rights | |
| Limits of Antebellum Reform | |
| The Market Revolution, 1812-1845 | p. 133 |
| The Market Economy | |
| Economic Panic | |
| The Northern Economy | |
| Growth of Immigration and Labor Unions | |
| The Southern Economy | |
| National Expansion and Sectional Division, 1830-1850 | p. 141 |
| "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 | |
| A House Divided, 1820-1860 | p. 151 |
| 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 1860 | |
| The Civil War, 1861-1865 | p. 161 |
| 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 | |
| Reconstruction, 1865-1877 | p. 170 |
| 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 | |
| Westward Movement, 1860-1898 | p. 178 |
| Conflicts with Native Americans in the Great Plains | |
| Settling the Plains and the West | |
| Farming | |
| Ranching | |
| Mining | |
| The Rise of Big Business and the Gilded Age, 1870-1896 | p. 186 |
| Technological Revolutions | |
| The Growth of Big Business | |
| Industrialization and Workers | |
| The Great Strikes | |
| Social Classes | |
| Politics and the Call for Reform, 1865-1900 | p. 196 |
| The Rise of the Big Cities | |
| Big-City Politics | |
| Politics in Washington | |
| Populism | |
| Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Movement, 1900-1920 | p. 205 |
| 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 | |
| The United States Becomes a World Power | p. 214 |
| 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 | |
| World War I and Its Aftermath, 1914-1920 | p. 223 |
| 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 | |
| The Jazz Age | p. 234 |
| 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 | |
| The Great Depression | p. 244 |
| 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 | |
| World War II (Part I) | p. 253 |
| 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 | |
| World War II (Part II) | p. 261 |
| 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 | |
| Postwar America, 1945-1960 | p. 270 |
| 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 | |
| The New Frontier and the Civil Rights Movement | p. 279 |
| The Election of 1960 | |
| Domestic Policy: The New Frontier | |
| Foreign Policy: Cuba and Berlin | |
| The Civil Rights Movement | |
| Space Race | |
| Assassination | |
| The Great Society | p. 286 |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | |
| The Great Society | |
| Civil Rights | |
| The Women's Movement | |
| The Vietnam War | p. 291 |
| Background: Vietnam | |
| The United States Sends Troops | |
| The Vietnam War Expands | |
| Combat in Vietnam 1965-1968 | |
| Protest at Home | |
| The Tet Offensive | |
| Watergate and Its Aftermath | p. 299 |
| The 1968 Election | |
| Domestic Policy under Nixon | |
| Foreign Policy | |
| Watergate | |
| The Pardon | |
| The Reagan Era and the End of the Cold War | p. 306 |
| 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 | |
| The 1990s and Beyond | p. 314 |
| The Election of 1992 | |
| Domestic Policy | |
| The Election of 2000 | |
| The Presidency of George W. Bush | |
| September 11, 2001 | |
| War in Iraq | |
| Six Full-Length Practice Tests | p. 319 |
| Practice Test 1 | p. 321 |
| Answer Key | p. 338 |
| Answers and Explanations | p. 339 |
| Practice Test 2 | p. 343 |
| Answer Key | p. 358 |
| Answers and Explanations | p. 359 |
| Practice Test 3 | p. 363 |
| Answer Key | p. 380 |
| Answers and Explanations | p. 381 |
| Practice Test 4 | p. 385 |
| Answer Key | p. 400 |
| Answers and Explanations | p. 401 |
| Practice Test 5 | p. 405 |
| Answer Key | p. 420 |
| Answers and Explanations | p. 421 |
| Practice Test 6 | p. 425 |
| Answer Key | p. 438 |
| Answers and Explanations | p. 439 |
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