The Princeton Review realizes that acing the U.S. History exam is very different from getting straight As in school. The Princeton Review doesn't try to teach students everything there is to know about U.S. history--only the techniques they'll need to score higher on the exam. "There's a big difference. In Cracking the Virginia SOL EOC U.S. History, TPR will teach test takers how to think like the test makers and: Remember important historical facts using TPR's Big Picture approach to studying Eliminate incorrect answer choices by using Process of Elimination and other techniques Master the most frequently tested material with TPR's U.S. History Hit Parade Test historical knowledge with review questions that cover each time period tested ***This book includes 2 full-length simulated exams. All of TPR's sample test questions are just like the ones test takers will see on the actual End-of-Course U.S. History exam, and TPR fully explains every solution. "Contents Include: The Mystery Exams Structure and Strategies II The U.S. History Review Big Picture 1: European Exploration and Colonization Big Picture2: The New Constitution, Federalism, and Jeffersonian Democracy Big Picture 3: Jacksonian Democracy, Manifest Destiny, the Civil War, and Reconstruction Big Picture 4: The Gilded Age, the Progressive Era, and World War I (1877-1920) Big Picture 5: The Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, the New Deal, and World War II (1920-1945) Big Picture 6: The Cold War and the Civil Rights Movement (1945-The Near Present) The History Hit Parade III The Princeton Review Practice Tests