Lingua Toefl Ibt Core Topic Guide

I. North American History
1. 17th Century: The Cherokees, Native Americans
2. 17th Century: The Story of Pocahontas
3. 17th-18th Century: Pirates
4. 18th Century: George Washington
5. 19th Century: The Growth of Newspapers
6. 19th Century: State vs Federal Authority
7. 19th Century: President Lincoln's Brain
8. 19th Century: Clipper Ships
9. 19th Century: Outlaws
10. 20th Century: American Cities in the Early 1900s
11. 20th Century: The Car Culture Arrives
12. 20th Century: Television in the 1950s
13. 20th Century: The Dyna-Soar Spaceship
14. 21st Century: Are We Changing Too Fast?

II. North American Literature
1. Ancient Times: Native American Legends
2. 17th-18th Century: Puritan Writers
3. 18th Century: Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia
4. 18th-20th Century: American Humorists
5. 18th-20th Century: American Essayists
6. 19th Century: James Fenimore Cooper
7. 19th Century: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
8. 19th Century: Louisa May Alcott
9. 19th Century: Emily Dickinson
10. 19th Century: Dime Novels
11. 19th-20th Century: American Detective Fiction
12. 20th Century: Robert Frost
13. 20th Century: Theodore Dreiser
14. 20th Century: Eugene O'Neill
15. 20th Century: Mary McCarthy
16. 20th Century: Science Fiction and the American Mind
17. 20th Century: Techno-thrillers
18. 20th Century: John Steinbeck
19. 20th Century: Sinclair Lewis
20. Ancient Times-Present: American Folk Heroes

III. North American Art
1. Ancient Times: Native American Petroglyphs
2. 18th Century: Gilbert Stuart
3. 18th Century: John Singleton Copley
4. 19th Century: Audubon's Birds
5. 19th Century: The "Yellow Kid"
6. 19th Century: "Wild West" Art
7. 19th Century: Thomas Nast
8. 20th Century: Georgia O'Keefe
9. 20th Century: Edward Hopper
10. 20th Century: Rockwell Kent
11. 20th Century: Newspaper Comic Strips
12. 20th Century: Editorial Cartoonists
13. 20th Century: Andy Warhol
14. 20th Century: Comic Books Grow Up
15. 20th Century: Norman Rockwell
16. 20th Century: Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss)

IV. World History
1. 11th Century: Norsemen in North America
2. 15th Century: The Columbus Controversy
3. 16th Century: Onate and the Spanish Conquest
4. 16th Century: "Northwest Passage"
5. 18th Century: France and the American Revolution
6. 18th Century: Washington's Warning
7. 19th Century: The Purchase of Alaska
8. 19th Century: 'The Opening of the West'
9. 19th Century: Lost in the Arctic
10. 20th-21st Century: The Hispanic Influx