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Introduction. Part I: Putting the SAT II U.S. History in Perspective. Chapter 1: Getting the Lowdown on the SAT II. Chapter 2: Maximizing Your Score on the SAT II. Part II: The Birth of a Nation. Chapter 3: Land Ho! Mastering the Age of Exploration, 1100s–Early 1600s. Chapter 4: Everything Old Is New Again: Life in the Colonies, 1620–1760.9 Chapter 5: We the People: The Fight for Independence, 1763–1800. Part III: America’s Childhood Years. Chapter 6: Jeffersonian Democracy and Nationalism, 1800–1824. Chapter 7: Strife and Controversy in the Jacksonian Era, 1820–1842. Chapter 8: Romanticism, Revolution, and Reform, 1820–1860. Chapter 9: Sibling Rivalry: Building Up to and Waging the Civil War, 1850–1865. Part IV: America as a Young Adult. Chapter 10: Picking Up the Pieces: Reconstruction, 1865–1896. Chapter 11: Reaching Boundaries: The End of the Frontier, 1860–1900. Chapter 12: America’s Second Industrial Revolution, 1860–1900. Chapter 13: Imperialism at the Turn of the Century, 1890–1914. Part V: America Becomes a Grown–Up. Chapter 14: Stepping Forward: The Progressive Era, 1900–1920. Chapter 15: World War I and Postwar Diplomacy, 1914–1920. Chapter 16: Throwing Caution to the Wind: The Roaring ’20s. Chapter 17: Crash and Burn: The Great Depression and the New Deal of the 1930s. Chapter 18: Coming Out of Our Shell: World War II, 1936–1945. Part VI: America in Middle Age. Chapter 19: Keeping Cool: Truman, Eisenhower, and the Cold War, 1945–1960. Chapter 20: A New Revolution: The Kennedy and Johnson Years, 1960–1968. Chapter 21: Challenging Authority: Vietnam and the 1970s. Chapter 22: Moving Ahead: The United States at the Turn of the Century, 1980–Present. Part VII: Practice Makes Perfect: Full–Length Practice Tests. Chapter 23: Pulling It All Together, Part I: Practice Test 1. Chapter 24: Explaining the Answers to Practice Test 1. Chapter 25: Pulling It All Together, Part II: Practice Test 2. Chapter 26: Explaining the Answers to Practice Test 2. Part VIII: The Part of Tens. Chapter 27: Ten Influential American Leaders. Chapter 28: Ten Crucial Presidencies. Index.