U.S. History Practice Quizzes

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Just send an email and ask to be added to the Practice Question list. You will receive a sample multiple-choice question, the correct answer, and an explanation seven days a week until the AP exam in May, 2010. Here's a sample.

Early Sunday Morning by Edward Hopper, 1930
(Whitney Museum of American Art--Art Museum Image Consortium)

*Please select a quiz to review a topic. If you would be interested in purchasing a set of topical U.S. history crossword puzzles, follow this link for a sample puzzle, key, and order instructions.*
Topic/Time Period	Multiple-Choice Quiz	Matching Quiz
1500s-1600s: Early American Colonial Life	Colonial Beginnings and Puritanism	Early Colonial Characters
1700-1760s: 18th Century Colonies	18th Century American Colonies
1750-1770s: Background to Revolution	Background to the American Revolution (1750s-1770s)	British Pre-War Policies
1775-1783: The War for Independence	Revolutionary War	Revolutionary War Battles
1781-1789: The Articles of Confederation & Constitutional Convention	Articles & Constitutional Convention	Articles Period
1789-1801: The Federalist Era	Federalist Era	Federalist Era Characters
1801-1815: The Search for a National Identity	Jeffersonian Era & War of 1812
1812-1815: War of 1812	War of 1812
1829-1840s: Rise of the Common Man	Jacksonian Era	Jacksonian Era Characters
1830s & 1840s: Westward Expansion & War with Mexico	Expansionism & Manifest Destiny	Expansionism
1830s & 1840s: Reform in the Jacksonian Era	Reform Movements
1800-1860: Slavery in America	Slavery
1850s: Prelude to War	Antebellum America	1850s Characters
1860s: Civil War	Civil War	Civil War Battles
1865-1876: Reconstruction	Reconstruction
1860s-1900: Native Americans, Ranchers, Farmers & Railroads	The American West
1860-1900: Industrialism	American Industrialism
1870-1900: Gilded Age Politics & Populism	Gilded Age
1890-1914: Imperialism & Foreign Affairs	Imperialism
1900-1918: Progressivism	Progressivism	Progressive Heroines
1914-1919: World War I & Treaty of Versailles	World War I
1920-1929: The Roaring Twenties	The 1920s	1920s Characters
1929-1940: The Great Depression	The Great Depression	New Deal Agencies
1920-1939: American Foreign Policy Between the World Wars	American Foreign Relations: 1920-1939
1939-1945: World War II	World War II	World War II Battles
1945-1960: Cold War, McCarthyism & Korea	Cold War & Korean War	Cold War
1954-1968: Civil Rights	Civil Rights	Civil Rights Characters
1950-1959: The 1950s	The 1950s
1954-1975: Vietnam	The Vietnam War	Vietnam War Sites
1960s: Kennedy, Youth Movements	The 1960s
1972-1974: Watergate	Watergate	Watergate Characters
1975-present: Modern America	Recent American History

Sources & Resources: The quizzes are designed to assist the students in my class and have been built with Hot Potatoes, a wonderful freeware application developed at Half-Baked Software. Quiz questions have been assembled from a variety of texts, including supplementary volumes issued to accompany Norton's A People and a Nation, Current's American History, and Boyer's Enduring Vision.

I have co-edited an AP U.S. History review book, REA's AP United States History. You can order it by clicking on the cover below.