MTTC History (009) study guide
MTTC History (009) · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
History (009) is one of the subject-area tests in the Michigan Test for Teacher Certification (MTTC) program, listed in the official test table with endorsement code CC. Candidates take it to demonstrate subject knowledge in history as part of Michigan teacher certification; the test is delivered as a computer-based test (CBT) with 100 multiple-choice questions. The MTTC History (009) study guide has 6 sections and about 2,030 words.
01Historical Concepts and Skills
This domain tests how historians think rather than what happened: chronology and periodization, sourcing, contextualization, corroboration, causation, continuity and change, and the construction of evidence-based argument. Expect document-based items that give short quotations or data tables rather than pictures.
362 words, about 2 min02World History to 1500
This domain covers the first states and empires, major belief systems, and the trade and migration networks that linked Afro-Eurasia and the Americas before 1500. Riverine states: Mesopotamia (Tigris–Euphrates), Egypt (Nile), the Indus cities, and Shang China (Yellow River).
336 words, about 2 min03World History from 1500 to the Present
This domain tests the making of the modern world: oceanic expansion, the Columbian Exchange, slavery and colonialism, Enlightenment and revolution, industrialization, imperialism, total war, the Cold War, and decolonization. The Columbian Exchange moved maize, potatoes, and tomatoes east and wheat, horses, and smallpox west; epidemic collapse in the Americas reshaped labor systems and drove the Atlantic slave trade.
341 words, about 2 min04U.S. History to 1877
This domain runs from colonial settlement through the Civil War and Reconstruction, emphasizing the constitutional order, expansion, and the transformation of labor and citizenship. Colonial economies diverged: tobacco and rice plantation slavery in the Chesapeake and Carolina lowcountry, family farming in New England, a mixed middle-colony economy.
327 words, about 2 min05U.S. History from 1877 to the Present
This domain traces industrialization and its discontents, reform, war, and the remaking of citizenship from 1877 to the present. Gilded Age: railroads, vertical integration (Carnegie's steel), and trusts; the Pullman Strike (1894) showed federal courts using injunctions against unions.
308 words, about 2 min06Michigan History
Michigan History tests the state's Indigenous, French, British, and American past and its industrial transformation, always tying state events to national developments. Anishinaabe peoples - Ojibwe (Chippewa), Odawa, and Potawatomi - formed the Three Fires Confederacy; the Wyandot (Huron) also lived in the region.
356 words, about 2 min