The Princeton Review - US History: Essential Review for AP, Honors, and Other Advanced Study

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Fast Track: U.S. History is a one-stop guide meant to help you keep up with your courseor to accelerate your content expertise. Whether youre a crammer, visual learner, or high-level student looking for extra review, this book is filled to the brim with information that youll benefit from knowing (or brushing up on). Weve taken every opportunity to translate key content into friendly and succinct formats, from timelines of major wars and concise profiles of notable figures, to flow charts illustrating the causes and effects of significant policy decisions, and much more. In shortwhich is the point of this bookthink of the following material as a fantastic set of class notes.

This book is pocket-sized because its meant to be used whenever and wherever you want. Waiting on a tardy friend? Spend some time with the Founding Fathers! Stuck on a sluggish commute? Wake yourself up with the Transcontinental Railroad! These are bite-sized topics that you can pick up and put down at your own pace. Whether you need it for a last-minute review or as a supplement for your class, youll find no judgment here. Remember: its never too late (or too early) to start studying.

What you wont find here are test-taking strategies or practice questions for a specific standardized test, like the AP or SAT Subject exams; for that kind of focus, check out our test-specific U.S. History prep titles online or at your local bookstore.

This book opens with a survey of the indigenous cultures of North America and the interactions between Europeans and Native Americans. These early chapters explore the impact of European colonization on the continent, colonial society, slavery, and the conflicts that arose both with the British and among the colonists themselves.

From there, well discuss the Revolutionary War, independence, the creation of the Constitution, and the formative period of the American democratic system. Well then review 19th-century developments such as westward expansion, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Industrial Revolution, as well as 20th-century modernization and wars, the Great Depression, Civil Rights, and the postCold War period including the factors shaping the 21st century.

Additionally, well delve into topics such as social change, class, immigration, gender roles, foreign policy, innovations in technology, and more. In short, this book covers all of the U.S. history contentand probably then some!that you would study in a high school class, AP or otherwise. This means that whether youre cramming for your classs final exam or prepping for an AP or SAT-level test in U.S. History, this book can help get you thereon the fast track.