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CLEP History of the United States I: Early Colonization to 1877
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9 chapters covering the exam topics in this guide
Chapter 1: Early America & Colonial Beginnings (1500–1754)
6 sections
Chapter 2: The Revolutionary Era & New Nation (1754–1789)
5 sections
Chapter 3: The Early Republic & Federalist Era (1789–1815)
5 sections
Chapter 4: Nationalism, Sectionalism & The Era of Good Feelings (1815–1828)
3 sections
Chapter 5: The Market Revolution & Antebellum Society (1815–1860)
9 sections
Chapter 6: Jacksonian Democracy & Sectional Politics (1824–1848)
4 sections
Chapter 7: Westward Expansion, Manifest Destiny & Sectional Crisis (1830–1855)
4 sections
Chapter 8: The Crisis of the Union & The Civil War (1850–1865)
6 sections
Chapter 9: Reconstruction & The Post-War Settlement (1865–1877)
6 sections
CLEP US History I Exam Details
CLEP History of the United States I: Early Colonization to 1877
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Exam Content Breakdown
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Colonial governance, the Revolution and Confederation, the Constitution, parties and elections, federalism, Jacksonian democracy, sectional politics, the Civil War, and Reconstruction policy.
Colonial society, slavery and the slave trade, immigration, religion and the Great Awakenings, reform movements, abolition, women's rights, family, race, and class.
Religion, the Enlightenment, education, literature, art, transcendentalism, science, and the ideologies that shaped American identity through 1877.
Mercantilism, colonial trade, agriculture and plantation economy, the market revolution, industrialization, transportation, tariffs, and the financial system.
European colonization, the imperial wars, the Revolution's diplomacy, the War of 1812, the Monroe Doctrine, Manifest Destiny and the Mexican War, and foreign affairs to 1877.
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