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Part I: Using This Book to Improve Your AP Score
Preview: Your Knowledge, Your Expectations
Your Guide to Using This Book
How to Begin
Part II: Practice Test 1
Practice Test 1
Practice Test 1: Diagnostic Answer Key and Explanations
Part III: About the AP U.S. History Exam
The Structure of the AP U.S. History Exam
AP U.S. History Goes Fully Digital
How the AP U.S. History Exam Is Scored
Overview of Content Topics
Understanding Content with Thematic Learning Objectives
How AP Exams Are Used
Other Resources
Designing Your Study Plan
Part IV: Test-Taking Strategies for the AP U.S. History
Exam
Preview
, 1 How to Approach Multiple-Choice Questions
2 How to Approach Short-Answer Questions
3 How to Approach the Document-Based and Long Essay
Questions
4 Using Time Effectively to Maximize Points
5 Pacing Drills
Part V: Content Review for the AP U.S. History Exam
6 Units 1 and 2: Early Contact with the New World (1491–1607)
and Colonization of North America (1607–1754)
7 Unit 3: Conflict and American Independence (1754–1800)
8 Unit 4: Beginnings of Modern American Democracy (1800–
1848)
9 Unit 5: Toward the Civil War and Reconstruction (1844–1877)
10 Unit 6: The Industrial Revolution (1865–1898)
11 Unit 7: The Early 20th Century (1890–1945)
12 Unit 8: The Postwar Period and Cold War (1945–1980)
13 Unit 9: Entering into the 21st Century (1980–Present)
14 Chapter Review Questions: Answers and Explanations
15 Key Terms and Concepts
Part VI: Additional Practice Tests
Practice Test 2
Practice Test 2: Answers and Explanations
Practice Test 3
Practice Test 3: Answers and Explanations
Practice Test 4
Practice Test 4: Answers and Explanations
Online Practice Tests