US History study guides

A deep-dive guide to Module 1 of the Virginia and US History SOL: the historical thinking skills (VUS.1), exploration and the Columbian Exchange, the founding of Jamestown and Virginia's pioneering of self-government and slavery, the three colonial regions, and the causes and course of the American Revolution, with Virginia's central role highlighted.

A deep-dive guide to Module 2 of the Virginia and US History SOL: the weaknesses of the Articles and the Constitutional Convention, the Constitution's principles and the Virginia roots of the Bill of Rights, Washington's precedents and the early Supreme Court, Jeffersonian and Jacksonian democracy, westward expansion and Manifest Destiny, and the antebellum reform movements.

A deep-dive guide to Module 3 of the Virginia and US History SOL: sectionalism and the causes of the Civil War, the war's leaders and turning points, the Emancipation Proclamation and Gettysburg Address, Reconstruction and its amendments, the end of Reconstruction and Jim Crow, and the settlement of the West and its devastation of American Indians.

A deep-dive guide to Module 4 of the Virginia and US History SOL: rapid industrialization and the Gilded Age, the new immigration and the growth of cities, the Progressive movement and its amendments, the emergence of the United States as a world power and the Spanish-American War, and World War I from American entry through the troubled peace.

A deep-dive guide to Module 5 of the Virginia and US History SOL: the Roaring Twenties and its cultural conflicts, the causes and effects of the Great Depression, the New Deal and the expansion of the federal government, and World War II from the rise of the dictators and Pearl Harbor through the Holocaust, the atomic bomb, and the transformed home front.

A deep-dive guide to Module 6 of the Virginia and US History SOL: the origins and conflicts of the Cold War, the civil rights movement and Virginia's Massive Resistance, postwar social change, the conservative resurgence and the end of the Cold War, and the modern era of globalization, technology, and enduring constitutional principles.