A brand-new test preparation manual with optional CD-ROM prepares AP test takers to excel on the exam with features that include: Two full-length practice tests with all questions answered and explained Test-taking strategies for answering both the test's Multiple-Choice and Free Response sections A detailed review of U.S. history, starting in 1600 and focusing on highlights that include the evolution of Colonial society, the American Revolution, the pre-Civil War economic structure of the United States and the slavery issue, the Civil War and Reconstruction, the growth of industrial America, the United States and its Empire, World War I, the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War, American Liberalism and its decline, America in the age of Clinton, Bush, and Obama, and much more