US History Cheatsheets

about the US History cheatsheets

A cheatsheet condenses a whole course into the facts you actually need on exam day. The US History cheatsheets on this page summarize the key formulas, concepts, and definitions from each unit so you can review the entire course at a glance.

They work best as a final review: skim the one-page summary, spot the units you want to strengthen, then go deeper with the US History study guides. The visual cheatsheets in the gallery are organized by unit, and you can generate your own for any topic you want a quick refresher on.

what's covered in US History

• Unit 1 – The Americas, Europe, and Africa Before 1492
• Unit 2 – The Atlantic World: Early Globalization
• Unit 3 – Colonial Societies: New Social Orders (1500-1700)
• Unit 4 – Rule Britannia! The English Empire, 1660–1763
• Unit 5 – Imperial Reforms and Colonial Protests (1763-74)
• Unit 6 – America's War for Independence, 1775–1783
• Unit 7 – Creating Republican Governments, 1776–1790
• Unit 8 – Growing Pains – The New Republic, 1790–1820
• Unit 9 – Industrial Growth in the North (1800-1850)
• Unit 10 – Jacksonian Democracy, 1820–1840
• Unit 11 – Westward Expansion: America's Frontier Push
• Unit 12 – Cotton's Reign: The Antebellum South
• Unit 13 – Antebellum Reform Movements (1820-1860)
• Unit 14 – Troubled Times – the Tumultuous 1850s
• Unit 15 – The Civil War, 1860–1865
• Unit 16 – The Era of Reconstruction, 1865–1877
• Unit 17 – Westward Expansion: America's Frontier (1840-1900)
• Unit 18 – Industrialization and Big Business (1870-1900)
• Unit 19 – The Growing Pains of Urbanization, 1870–1900
• Unit 20 – Politics in the Gilded Age, 1870–1900
• Unit 21 – Progressive Era: Reform and Change (1890-1920)
• Unit 22 – American Imperialism (1890-1914)
• Unit 23 – Americans and the Great War, 1914–1919
• Unit 24 – The Jazz Age – Redefining the Nation, 1919–1929
• Unit 25 – The Great Depression: Economic Crisis 1929-32
• Unit 26 – Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932–1941
• Unit 27 – World War II: America Joins the Fight (1941-45)
• Unit 28 – Post-War Boom and Cold War Tensions: 1945-60
• Unit 29 – Contesting Futures – America in the 1960s
• Unit 30 – Political Storms at Home and Abroad, 1968–1980
• Unit 31 – From Cold War to Culture Wars, 1980–2000
• Unit 32 – The Challenges of the Twenty–First Century