If you’re preparing for college and want the opportunity to move beyond introductory history courses during your freshman and sophomore years of college, the College Level Examination Program is one option to potentially earn college-level credit for introductory history courses.

There are several U.S. History courses that you can test out of with the College Level Examination Program (also known as CLEP) including History of the United States 1. This exam covers the information that would typically be taught in the first semester of a two-semester course on the history of the United States. The CLEP History of the United States 1 exam includes 120 multiple-choice questions. These questions cover a range of topics from the U.S. History between 1790 and 1887, emphasizing the English colonies. Students are expected to be able to identify and describe historical events, analyze and interpret historical situations, and compare and contrast historical events in order to be successful in this exam. If you pass the exam, you’ll likely be able to start your study of history in college with other courses.

There are many different tools to prepare for the CLEP History of the United States 1 exam, including a set of free flashcards online, just one option available from Varsity Tutors’ Learning Tools. Each of the available flashcards offers a single question, and five potential answers. These are very similar to questions that you might find on the CLEP US History exam.

Topics on these flashcards include Manifest Destiny, women’s public roles in society, the Federalist Papers, politics in the 19th century, political parties, affects of the Civil War, and many other topics in the thousands of available flashcards.

When you choose an answer from the five possibilities, you’ll get immediate feedback. You’ll know in the blink of an eye whether you chose the correct answer or not; Learning Tools flashcards also give an explanation of what the correct answer is, whether your choice was right or not. These flashcards are unique, because they offer users the opportunity to ignore questions that you feel you have mastered, and return to flashcards that contain questions that you struggle with. Whether you have several hours to devote to reviewing for the CLEP U.S. History exam, or you’re trying to study between other obligations, these online flashcards are available, wherever and whenever you have an Internet connection.

If you create an account on the Varsity Tutors web site, you’ll have the opportunity to track your progress as you use the CLEP History of the United States flashcards for test review. You’ll find out how many questions you’re answering correctly, and which topics you might want to study further; you’ll also have access to a flashcards creator that gives you the option to make personalized flashcards for test review.

Varsity Tutors’ Learning Tools goes further than just free online flashcards. In fact, you can access Practice Tests and a Question of the Day series that presents a random question based on a first-semester U.S. History college course.