History Exam Survival Guide

Your ninety-minute history exam is basically a speed run through four hundred years of

absolute chaos. You have forty-five minutes to crush the multiple choice section,

so stop stressing the tiny dates and lock in on the big shifts. It starts with Native

interactions and European conquest, then moves to the colonies getting rich off tobacco

and slavery. Once the British taxes hit, it’s revolution time,

followed by the messy drama of writing the Constitution. Then we hit the eighteen-hundreds

with Manifest Destiny and the cotton gin making the Civil War inevitable. Make sure you can

identify primary sources like Common Sense, because that fifteen-minute grace period won't