<p>I need an edge when its back 2 school, so I am trying to study US history during the summer.</p>
<p>please tell me which text book your school uses.</p>
<p>ISBN and author if possible</p>
<p>American Pageant. But I'd suggest taking REA's APUSH prep book. AP has lots of unnecessary crap.</p>
<p>My school also uses the American Pageant, 13th edition.</p>
<p>My former APUSH teacher prefered REA, but my opinion was slightly different. The REA book is good, but I liked the Princeton Review's Cracking the AP US History Exam book better. I got a 4 by using REA's practice tests and PR's summaries.</p>
<p>The REA is good for its practice tests and the PR book has more brief summaries, which is good when you don't want to read 460 pages around 2-3 weeks before the AP Test.</p>
<p>Go look in the AP Prep section.</p>
<p>My school used Brinkley's A Survey of American History, (7th edition I think or was it 11th?)</p>
<p>AMSCO makes a pretty awesome review book.</p>
<p>Pageant but don't buy the book. It is probably extremely expensive.</p>
<p>Pageant too. I used AMSCO to review for the national exam though. You can buy AMSCO from amazon.com (extremely cheaper than Pageant) to get ahead.</p>
<p>My school uses "The American Nation" by John A. Garraty.</p>
<p>I agree with all the Pageant people. It's way too big to read up on at this stage.</p>
<p>mine uses Inventing America, second edition (authors are maier, smith, keyssar, and kevles). i'd recommend it; you can go on this website to preview it (website has study plan for each chpt, etc):
<a href="http://www2.wwnorton.com/college/history/inventing2/index.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www2.wwnorton.com/college/history/inventing2/index.htm</a></p>
<p>That's the book which we're going to use all year and we have to read and outline the first 6 chapters for summer work.
I recommend it because my teacher has like published books on US history and he says this is the book most colleges use. </p>
<p>Anyway, it's called America's History 4th edition.
Authors: James A. Henretta, David Brody, Susan Ware, Marilynn Johnson.
ISBN: 0-312-19396-3</p>
<p>He also gave us a list of terms that have been on the APUSH test. I'll post them for anyone who wants them..</p>
<p>1.Leif Eriksson
2.Christopher Columbus
3.Hispaniola
4.Treaty of Tordesillas
5.John Cabot
6.Vasco de Gama
7.Ponce de Leon
8.Ferdinand Magellan
9.Hernando de Soto
10.St. Augustine
11.France Drake
12.Roanoke
13.Jamestown
14.Henry Hudson
15.Mayflower Compact
16.William Bradford
17. Order of colonization of colonies
18.Contrast between Pilgrims and Puritans
19.Church of England
20.Puritan migration
21.John Winthrop
22.Calvinism<br>
23.Congregational Church
24.Roger Williams
25.Anne Hutchinson
26.covenant theology
27.Half-covenant
28.Thomas Hooker
29.Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
30.Founding of Harvard (reasons)
31.New England Confederation
32. King Phillips War
33.Dominion of New England
34.Sir Edmund Andros
35.joint stock companies
36.Virginia colony (purpose, failures, successes)
37.headrights
38.John Smith
39.John Rolfe
40.House of Burgesses
41.Cavaliers
42.Bacons Rebellion
43.Georgia colony (purpose, failures, successes)
44.James Oglethorpe
45.Staple crops in the southern colonies
46.William Penns Holy Experiment
47.New York colony (purpose, failures, successes)
48.Patroon system
49.Peter Stuyvesant
50.Five Nations
51. Crops in the middle colonies
52.Leislers Rebellion
53. Religions in the middle colonies
54 Pennsylvania colony (purpose, failures, successes)
55. Maryland colony (purpose, failures, successes)
56. Rhode Island colony (purpose, failures, successes)
57. Johnathan Edwards
58. George Whitefield
59. Old Lights v. New Lights
60. Lord Baltimore
61.Maryland Toleration Act
62.Deism
63.Huguenots
64.Mercantilism
65.sectional differences among the colonies
(lifestyles, religions, commerce)
66.triangular trade
67.Currency Act
68.Salem Witch Trials
69.Primogeniture
70.indentured servants
71.Phyllis Wheatly
72.Anne Hutchinson
73.Anne Bradstreet
74.Salutory Neglect
75.Enlightenment
76.Town meetings in New England Colonies
77.John Peter Zenger
78. John Locke
79.Writs of assistance
80.Pontiacs War
81.Paxton Boys
82.Grenville Program
83.vitual representation
84.Stamp Act
85.Virginia Resolves
86.internal taxes in the colonies (purposes, reactions)
87.James Otis
88.Proclamation of 1763
89.Navigation Act 1660
90.Sugar Act
91.non-importation
92.actual representation
93.Sons of Liberty
94.Patrick Henry
95.Declaraory Act
96.Massachusetts Circular Letter
97.Townshend Act
98.Carolina Regulators
99.Boston Massacre
100.Governor Thomas Hutchinson
101.Lord North
102.Boston Tea Party
103.Quebec Act
104.First Continental Association
105.Suffolk Resolves
106.Paul Revere
107.William Dawes
108.George Washington
109.Olive Branch Petition
110. natural rights philosophy in the colonies
111.Richard Henry Lees Resolution, July 2
112.Abigail Adams
113.Edmund Burke
114.Lafayette
115.Benedict Arnold
116.John Paul Jones
117.Articles of Confederation
118.Quartering Act
119. Sam Adams
120.Crispus Attucks
121.John Adams
122.Gaspee Incident
123.Committee of Correspondence
124.East India Company
125.Coercive Acts
126.Galloway Plan
127.Lexington and Concord
128.Bunker Hill (Breeds Hill)
129.Thomas Paine
130. Common Sense
131.Thomas Jefferson
132.Benjamin Franklin
133.John Adams
134. George Rogers Clark
135. Robert Morris
136.Bon Homme Richard
137.Serapis
138.Declaration of Independence
139.King George III
140.French and Indian War
141. Battle of Saratoga
142. Yorktown
143.Valley Forge</p>
<p>Sorry, I know it's long. I have to define them.
I'll post this in the AP section. Maybe they'll like it. Good luck</p>
<p>to OP: AMERICAN PAGEANT - most popular, and also regarded as the most helpful.</p>
<p>if you end up getting the american pageant, there are supplemental notes at <a href="http://www.apnotes.net%5B/url%5D">www.apnotes.net</a> that are VERY helpful. best of luck</p>
<p>The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People</p>
<p>My teacher uses the 4th edition.
Here's the newest:
<a href="http://www.ecampus.com/book/0618280642%5B/url%5D">http://www.ecampus.com/book/0618280642</a></p>
<p>we used A People and a Nation. I read almost the entire book, excluding the more recent chapters which are rarely covered on the AP. I used the Princeton Review book to read completely, but only after I read that textbook. I read the textbook chapters on weekends as we went through it in class, and then I read the Review book in chunks every 10 chapters or so, and then before the AP I read the whole Review book again. This was done along with another AP class and then some other AP tests plus sports and all that stuff, so I assure you it's not prohibitively time consuming.
The class did not add much to these resources except the lectures went over the same facts yet another time which made them easier to remember. After this regimen I found myself quite prepared for the AP.</p>
<p>supplementary books are also really good. Try reading history-based books such as All the President's Men, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Founding Fathers, and the Feminine Mystique.</p>
<p>We use Brinkley's American History, a survey
& Norton's A History of the American People </p>
<p>and about dank08's comment about the price of the textbooks: well i got mine for 8 and 10, just get used books. they're just as good as the new ones.</p>
<p>The American Pageant is... interesting. I both loved and loathed that book.</p>
<p>It has so many hilarious lines in it (some really interesting imagery, similes, and metaphors...), but it was sometimes difficult to distinguish important fact from little anecdotes and fancy language... if you know what I mean =)</p>
<p>I usually just used Course Notes, because on tests I would only remember silly, irrelevant stories that the authors included. Instead of being able to fill in the blank, I would go off on a rant about how I remembered the answer to the "blank" was on the page that mentioned the clock striking "sex o'clock" during the 20's. I think that my APUSH teacher really enjoyed that.</p>
<p>I had American Pageant last year, and had no outside reading books, and I got a
5. Although, I was familiar with many of the books dealing with U.S. History such as, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and I had a lot of outside knowledge in the form of excerpts of numerous documents and readings my teacher use to give our class.
The only thing I didn't like about American Pageant was that it jumped back and forth between time periods. This, in fact, caused me to miss a question on the MC portion. I did love it because it was very detailed, while still covering all of the important points. It was also very comical at times, like with the "sex o'clock" reference!</p>
<p>AMSCO</p>
<p>you can buy it online on their puiblication website</p>
<p>American Pageant got me my 5 :D</p>