Wiley AP U.S. History -- Contents -- Part I: About the AP U.S. History Exam -- Chapter 1: An Introduction to the Exam and General Study Strategies -- WHAT'S ON THE TEST -- POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, AND SOCIAL (PES) QUESTIONS -- WHAT THE AP GRADES MEAN -- TEST PREPARATION -- Chapter 2: Getting Mentally Prepared for the Big Test -- IDENTIFYING THE WAY YOU LEARN -- WAYS TO MAXIMIZE YOUR STUDY TIME -- STRATEGIES TO REDUCE PRETEST ANXIETY -- TWO DAYS BEFORE THE EXAM -- EXAM DAY -- Chaper 3: Strategies for the Multiple-Choice Section -- THINKING LIKE THE TEST WRITERS -- TIME MANAGEMENT DURING THE TEST -- Chapter 4: Scoring Well on Document-Based Questions (DBQs) -- USING DOCUMENTS LIKE A HISTORIAN -- DBQ SCORES -- PAT: A STRATEGY FOR ANSWERING DOCUMENT-BASED QUESTIONS -- SAMPLE DOCUMENT-BASED QUESTION: THE RECONSTRUCTION -- Chapter 5: Writing AP-Quality Essays -- HOW TO HANDLE TIMING -- SELECTING THE BEST QUESTIONS -- GRADING CRITERIA FOR ESSAY QUESTIONS -- CONVERTING QUESTIONS TO PAT ANSWERS -- Part II: U.S. History from America's Beginning to Now -- Chapter 6: American Indians from 20,000 BCE to 1491 CE -- THE FIRST AMERICANS -- EARLY AMERICAN INDIAN EMPIRES -- AMERICAN INDIANS IN NORTH AMERICA -- NATIVE AMERICANS AND THE SPREAD OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES -- UNEVEN GIFT EXCHANGE -- Chapter 7: The New World: 1492-1690 -- EUROPEANS SETTLE INTO THE NEW WORLD -- THE AMERICAN COLONIES -- EARLY CHALLENGES TO THE NEW COLONIES -- Chapter 8: The Road to the Revolution: 1691-1775 -- POPULATION EXPANSION IN THE COLONIES -- DAILY LIFE IN THE COLONIES -- AMERICAN ARTS -- CHANGING ATTITUDES TOWARD RELIGION -- EARLY POLITICS -- MAKING MONEY IN COLONIAL AMERICA -- FIGHTING ACROSS NORTH AMERICA -- PRELUDE TO THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR -- COLONIAL HISTORY ESSAY SUBJECTS -- Chapter 9: From Revolution to Republic: 1776-1815 -- COMMON SENSE AND THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.

EARLY BATTLES BETWEEN BRITAIN AND THE PATRIOTS -- THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: AN OVERVIEW -- DESIGNING A NEW COUNTRY -- THE LEGAL FOUNDATION OF A NATION -- THE YOUNG REPUBLIC -- JOHN ADAMS -- THOMAS JEFFERSON AND THE 1800S -- EVENTS LEADING TO THE WAR OF 1812 -- THE ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS -- Chapter 10: The United States Grows Up, 1816-1845 -- MANIFEST DESTINY -- KICK-STARTING POLITICAL ACTION -- THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE OF 1820 -- THE MONROE DOCTRINE (1823) -- THE TRAIL OF TEARS (1838) -- ANDREW JACKSON'S PRESIDENCY -- MODERN CONVENIENCES -- SLAVERY GROWS WITH COTTON -- EDUCATION AND THE ARTS -- TRANSCENDENTALISM AND THE SECOND GREAT AWAKENING -- Chapter 11: From Sea to Shining Sea: 1846-1854 -- NEW INVENTIONS -- STRIDES IN TRANSPORTATION -- SOCIAL CHANGE -- EXPANDED ROLES FOR WOMEN -- ARTS IN MID-19TH CENTURY AMERICA -- THE ECONOMICS OF SLAVERY -- EARLY ETHNIC GROUP ISSUES -- MORE LAND FOR AMERICA -- SLIDING TO CIVIL WAR -- Chapter 12: The Fight over Slavery: 1855-1865 -- UNCLE TOM'S CABIN AND THE SHIFT IN PUBLIC OPINION -- FROM WORDS TO BULLETS IN BLEEDING KANSAS -- THE DRED SCOTT DECISION -- FINANCIAL COLLAPSE: THE PANIC OF 1857 -- THE ELECTION OF 1860: WIDENING THE DIVIDE -- THE CIVIL WAR ERUPTS -- THE AFTERMATH OF THE CIVIL WAR -- Chapter 13: Reconstruction and the Move Westward, 1866-1880 -- RECONSTRUCTION -- THE PRESIDENCY OF ULYSSES S. GRANT -- LIFE IN THE GILDED AGE -- THE PUSH WESTWARD -- Chapter 14: The U.S. Grows Up, 1881-1899 -- SOCIAL CHANGE IN THE GILDED AGE -- ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT IN THE LATE 19TH CENTURY -- PRESIDENTS OF THE PERIOD -- GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS -- HARD TIMES AND LABOR UNIONS -- SETTLING THE WEST -- BACKING PAPER MONEY WITH PRECIOUS METALS -- AMERICAN IMPERIALISM -- Chapter 15: America on the International Stage, Ready or Not: 1900-1919 -- THE UNITED STATES IN ASIA -- THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

EXPOSING THE SHORTCOMINGS OF SOCIETY -- WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT AND TRUST-BUSTING -- IDEALISM WITH WOODROW WILSON -- WORLD WAR I -- Chapter 16: The Jazz Age and the Great Depression: 1921-1939 -- U.S. VERSUS COMMUNISM: THE EARLY YEARS -- THE RETURN OF THE KLAN -- IMMIGRATION ACT OF 1924 -- THE JAZZ AGE -- SIGNS OF ECONOMIC TROUBLE AHEAD -- POLITICS LEADING TO THE DEPRESSION -- THE STOCK MARKET CRASH OF 1929 -- FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT AND THE NEW DEAL -- DEMAGOGUES OF THE DEPRESSION -- Chapter 17: World War II: 1940-1945 -- THE BRINK OF WAR -- THE FLAMES OF WAR GROW HIGHER -- FIGHTING TO WIN ON THE HOME FRONT -- THE FIGHT IN THE PACIFIC -- THE FIGHT IN EUROPE -- THE ATOMIC BOMB AND THE END OF THE CONFLICT -- Chapter 18: Victory and Cold War: 1946-1960 -- POST-WWII AMERICA -- TRUMAN, THE UNEXPECTED PRESIDENT -- THE BEGINNING OF THE COLD WAR -- ANTI-COMMUNISM HYSTERIA -- THE KOREAN WAR -- THE EISENHOWER PRESIDENCY -- THE PROSPEROUS 1950S -- THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT OF THE 1950S -- THE SPACE RACE -- CASTRO IN CUBA -- THE ELECTION OF JOHN KENNEDY -- Chapter 19: Rock and Roll Living: 1961-1979 -- KENNEDY: PROGRESS AND THE COLD WAR -- TRADE AGREEMENTS -- THE UNITED STATES AS WORLD COP -- THE SUPREME COURT OF THE 1960S -- THE ASSASSINATION OF JFK -- THE HEIGHT OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT -- LYNDON B. JOHNSON (LBJ) -- THE VIETNAM WAR -- RICHARD NIXON -- GERALD FORD -- JIMMY CARTER -- Chapter 20: Leading in the Modern World: 1980-The Present -- RONALD REAGAN AND REAGANOMICS -- COMMUNISM FADES -- GEORGE H.W. BUSH -- MODERN DEMOCRACY WITH BILL CLINTON -- GEORGE W. BUSH -- THE 21ST CENTURY -- Part III: Review of Key Trends, Events, and Supreme Court Cases -- Chapter 21: Key Events in U.S. History -- 1500-1675: SETTING UP THE COLONIES -- 1675-1775: BUILDING THE COLONIES -- 1776: REVOLUTION -- 1780-1800: THE CONSTITUTION -- 1800-1840: DEMOCRACY AND MANIFEST DESTINY.

1820-1860: THE LONG PREQUEL TO THE CIVIL WAR -- 1860-1865: CIVIL WAR -- 1865-1900: THE UNITED STATES GROWS UP -- 1900-1945: U.S. AS WORLD POWER -- 1930 TO NOW: GUARDIAN OF THE PEOPLE -- Chapter 22 -- Key Issues in U.S. History -- U.S. DIVERSITY -- THE AMERICAN IDENTITY -- AMERICAN CULTURE -- DEMOGRAPHICS -- ECONOMICS -- WOMEN'S RIGHTS -- RACIAL EQUALITY -- REFORM -- U.S. RELATIONS WITH THE WORLD -- SPIRITUALITY -- Chapter 23: Key Supreme Court Decisions -- MARBURY V. MADISON (1803) -- MCCULLOCH V. MARYLAND (1819) -- GIBBONS V. OGDEN (1824) -- DRED SCOTT V. SANDFORD (1857) -- PLESSY V. FERGUSON (1896) -- WEST COAST HOTEL CO. V. PARRISH (1937) -- BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION (1954) -- MAPP V. OHIO (1962) -- GIDEON V. WAINWRIGHT (1963) -- GRISWOLD V. CONNECTICUT (1965) -- MIRANDA V. ARIZONA (1966) -- ROE V. WADE (1973) -- UNITED STATES V. NIXON (1974) -- Part IV: Practice Tests and Answer Sheets -- Chapter 24: Practice Test 1 -- GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS -- SECTION I: MULTIPLE CHOICE -- SECTION II: FREE-RESPONSE QUESTIONS -- Chapter 25: Answers to Practice Test 1 -- SECTION I: MULTIPLE CHOICE -- SECTION II: FREE-RESPONSE QUESTIONS -- Chapter 26: Practice Test 2 -- SECTION I: MULTIPLE CHOICE -- SECTION II: FREE-RESPONSE QUESTIONS -- Chapter 27: Answers to Practice Test 2 -- SECTION I: MULTIPLE CHOICE -- SECTION II: FREE-RESPONSE QUESTIONS -- ANSWER SHEET FOR PRACTICE TEST 1 -- ANSWER SHEET FOR PRACTICE TEST 2 -- Index.