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Perhaps you like politics the most.  In that case, you'll want to memorize the presidents and leaders of Congress, and relate historical events to their times in office.  Or perhaps you enjoy legal issues, and reading about famous trials and court rulings.  If so, then you may want to focus your attention on the major rulings of the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] throughout American history, and relate other historical events to those decisions.
 
Perhaps you like politics the most.  In that case, you'll want to memorize the presidents and leaders of Congress, and relate historical events to their times in office.  Or perhaps you enjoy legal issues, and reading about famous trials and court rulings.  If so, then you may want to focus your attention on the major rulings of the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] throughout American history, and relate other historical events to those decisions.
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On the CLEP U.S. History exam for college credit, the questions are allocated among these topics:
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<br>Political history  - 35%
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<br>Social history - 25%
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<br>Cultural and intellectual history - 15%
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<br>Diplomacy and foreign relations - 15%
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<br>Economic history - 10%
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On the CLEP exam for U.S. History I, roughly 1/3rd of the questions relate to the time period of 1492 (discovery by [[Christopher Columbus]] to 1789 (the beginning of the federal government of the [[United States]] under the [[U.S. Constitution]], while 2/3rds relate to 1789 to 1877 (the end of [[Reconstruction]]).
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On the SAT II U.S. History exam to enhance an application to college, the topics are similar but there are a bit more questions about economics and fewer on social history.
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On both exams, the biggest portion is devoted to politics, mostly concerning what happened in the federal government in [[Washington, D.C.]]  Notice also that there are almost no questions about military battles on either exam, which is an example of testing bias.
      
== Periods in American History ==
 
== Periods in American History ==
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