OSAT History (OK117) study plan

Build a dated timeline from pre-Columbian societies through 1783, placing at least 25 events and labeling each with its region and significance

Explain the economic and demographic effects of the Columbian Exchange on three specific Native American groups and two European powers

Compare the political and labor systems of the Chesapeake, New England, and Middle Colonies using at least four named primary sources

Identify the causes and consequences of Bacon's Rebellion and the Salem witch trials as evidence of colonial social tensions

Sequence the constitutional conflicts from the Stamp Act through the ratification of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, explaining the argument behind each

Summarize the Federalist and Anti-Federalist positions using at least three specific essays or speeches

Trace the development of political parties from Washington's cabinet through the election of 1800

Evaluate the Marshall Court's major decisions as precedents for federal power

Analyze westward expansion, the market revolution, and Jacksonian democracy as linked economic and political changes

Explain the reform movements of the antebellum period and connect each to its social base

Trace the legislative sequence from the Missouri Compromise through the Compromise of 1850

Describe the sectional arguments over slavery in terms of economics, ideology, and constitutional interpretation

Sequence the Civil War from secession through Appomattox, naming the strategic significance of at least six battles

Compare Presidential, Congressional, and Radical Reconstruction plans and their outcomes

Explain the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments and the Supreme Court cases that narrowed them

Assess the causes of Reconstruction's end and the rise of Jim Crow

Trace industrialization, immigration, and urbanization from 1877 to 1900 and identify their push and pull factors

Compare Populist and Progressive reform goals using specific legislation and reformers

Explain U.S. expansion overseas and the debates it produced at home

Analyze the causes and home-front effects of World War I

Sequence the causes and consequences of the Great Depression and the New Deal's major programs

Explain the U.S. path from neutrality to involvement in World War II and the war's domestic effects

Describe the origins, major events, and legislative results of the civil rights movement

Trace Cold War policy from containment through detente and identify its turning points

Compare the political, religious, and technological features of Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus Valley, and Shang China

Explain the contributions of classical Greece and Rome to later political thought and identify three lasting institutions

Describe the rise, spread, and core beliefs of Islam, Christianity, and Buddhism and their effects on trade and empire

Trace the Renaissance, Reformation, and Scientific Revolution as linked challenges to established authority

Compare the causes and global consequences of the French and Industrial Revolutions

Explain the causes and consequences of the World Wars, decolonization, and the Cold War from a global perspective

Distinguish primary from secondary sources and evaluate bias, audience, and purpose in a sample document

Apply the skills of contextualization, sourcing, and corroboration to a set of three short quotations

Identify major historiographical schools and how their interpretations differ

Complete a timed 60-question mixed practice test and categorize every miss by domain