Study guide and review for Advanced Placement United States History for the student serious about doing well in the course. It serves as a great resource either while going through the course, or at the end of the course as a review before the AP exam. This book is directly aligned with "American Pageant" so the student will do as well as possible during the course. Included are detailed outlines for each chapter. The outline links directly to the chapter and even chapter sub-sections making it great for a student taking U.S. History and using Bailey and Kennedy's "American Pageant" as his or her main text and who strives to excel in the course. Since history is really textbook-independent, students using other textbooks will also find this book very useful. Study guides for other editions of the textbook and digital editions (ebook/epub/ipad/others) can be found on lulu.com as well.

Traces the history of the United States from the arrival of the first Indian people to the present day.

Our AP US History Exam study guide does not contain filler or fluff, so you can work through the guide at a significantly faster pace than other AP US History review books. By allowing a student to focus ONLY on those concepts that will increase their score, study time is more effective. Reviews all topics for the new 2014-2015 AP US History Exam: will cover seven key themes in U.S. History: Identity Work, Exchange, and Technology Peopling Politics and Power America in the World Environment and Geography: Physical and Human Ideas, Beliefs, and Culture Specifically, the following nine periods will be covered in the review of AP US History and in the exam: 1491-1607 1607-1754 1754-1800 1800-1848 1844-1877 1865-1898 1890-1945 1945-1980 1980-Present Includes a FULL LENGTH AP US History practice test, complete with: multiple-choice questions short-answer questions document-based question (DBQ) long essay question

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