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World and U.S. History: Content Knowledge

Provider
Educational Testing Service
Format
Computer-delivered selected-response examination with four answer choices; some questions interpret passages, maps, charts, graphs, tables, cartoons, diagrams or photographs.
Exam questions
Total questions: 120.
Time limit
2 hours
Exam fee
USD 130.00
Examination outline
  • World History to 1450 C.E. (25%)
    • World geography, climate and environment (1–3% of whole test)
    • Hunting-and-gathering societies and the Neolithic Revolution (1–5% of whole test)
    • Early river-valley and American civilizations (1–8% of whole test)
    • Greece, Rome, Persia, India and China, 1000 B.C.E.–500 C.E. (1–8% of whole test)
    • Origins, development and spread of major religions (1–8% of whole test)
    • Collapses of empires, 200–600 C.E. (1–5% of whole test)
    • New empires and political systems, 600–1450 C.E. (1–5% of whole test)
    • Effects of the spread of Islam, 600–1450 C.E. (1–5% of whole test)
    • Afro-Eurasian developments, 1000–1450 C.E. (1–8% of whole test)
    • Interregional networks, 1000–1450 C.E. (1–5% of whole test)
  • World History: 1450 C.E. to the Present (25%)
    • European exploration and colonization, 1450–1750 C.E. (1–5% of whole test)
    • Major political entities, 1450–1750 C.E. (1–5% of whole test)
    • Atlantic, trans-Saharan and East African slave trades (1–5% of whole test)
    • Renaissance, Reformation, Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution (1–5% of whole test)
    • Industrial Revolution, 1750–1914 (1–5% of whole test)
    • Political revolutions, unifications and independence, 1750–1914 (1–5% of whole test)
    • Nationalism, imperialism, colonization and indigenous responses, 1840–1945 (1–5% of whole test)
    • Twentieth-century totalitarian states (1–5% of whole test)
    • First and Second World Wars (1–9% of whole test)
    • International organizations and regional economic blocs (1–3% of whole test)
    • Asian and African decolonization and nationalism (1–5% of whole test)
    • Twentieth-century Middle East (1–5% of whole test)
    • Global Cold War, 1945–1989 (1–5% of whole test)
    • Changing roles of women since the nineteenth century (1–3% of whole test)
    • Collapse of European communism and breakup of the Soviet Union (1–5% of whole test)
    • Political and human-rights movements since 1945 (1–3% of whole test)
    • Late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century economic and technological changes (1–3% of whole test)
    • Twentieth-century genocides (1–5% of whole test)
  • United States History to 1877 (25%)
    • North American geography, peoples and cultures before colonization (1–5% of whole test)
    • Human interactions with the North American environment (1–5% of whole test)
    • Founding and development of European colonies (1–5% of whole test)
    • European conflicts and indigenous interests in colonial development (1–3% of whole test)
    • Relationships among Europeans, Africans and American Indians (1–3% of whole test)
    • Regional colonial social structures and economic development (1–5% of whole test)
    • Slavery and experiences of free and enslaved Africans (1–5% of whole test)
    • American Revolution (1–4% of whole test)
    • Articles of Confederation, Constitution and Bill of Rights (1–10% of whole test)
    • Political development and foreign policy, 1790s to Civil War (1–5% of whole test)
    • Nineteenth-century territorial expansion (1–3% of whole test)
    • Market economy and innovation in the early nineteenth century (1–5% of whole test)
    • Antebellum reform and religious movements (1–3% of whole test)
    • Sectionalism, Civil War and Reconstruction (1–8% of whole test)
  • United States History: 1877 to the Present (25%)
    • Industrialization, urbanization and immigration (1–5% of whole test)
    • Contrasting urban and rural development (1–3% of whole test)
    • United States imperialism (1–3% of whole test)
    • Regional developments, Jim Crow and American Indian policies (1–3% of whole test)
    • Gilded Age and Progressive Era reforms (1–5% of whole test)
    • Woman suffrage (1–3% of whole test)
    • United States participation in the First World War (1–3% of whole test)
    • Political, social, economic and cultural changes in the 1920s (1–3% of whole test)
    • Great Depression (1–3% of whole test)
    • New Deal (1–3% of whole test)
    • United States participation in the Second World War (1–3% of whole test)
    • Twentieth- and twenty-first-century immigration and internal migration (1–3% of whole test)
    • Cold War abroad and domestically (1–3% of whole test)
    • African American and other civil-rights movements (1–3% of whole test)
    • Social changes from the 1940s to the 1970s (1–3% of whole test)
    • Postwar social policy and political movements (1–3% of whole test)
    • Effects of global political, economic, social and technological changes (1–3% of whole test)
    • United States role in the post–Cold War world (1–3% of whole test)
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