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Virginia Standards of Learning (SOL) End-of-Course Tests
Virginia SOL Virginia & United States History (VUS) End-of-Course test — colonization through the present, plus geography, economics, and civics. Earns the history/social-science verified credit. Built to the 2023 History & Social Science Standards of Learning (effective for testing spring 2026).
6 topics · 24 lessons · 60 practice questions
Analyze primary and secondary sources, maps, charts, timelines, and political cartoons; distinguish cause/effect and fact/opinion; evaluate reliability and point of view; and interpret historical evidence (VUS.1, assessed throughout).
4 lessons · 10 practice questions
European colonization and Jamestown/Virginia; colonial society and Bacon's Rebellion; causes of the American Revolution; the Declaration of Independence; the Articles of Confederation; and the drafting and ratification of the Constitution.
4 lessons · 10 practice questions
Westward expansion and sectionalism; the causes and course of the Civil War (including Virginia's central role); and Reconstruction, its amendments, and its aftermath in Virginia (the Readjuster Party, the rise of segregation).
4 lessons · 10 practice questions
Industrialization, immigration, and urbanization; the Progressive Era; U.S. emergence as a world power and World War I; the 1920s and the Great Depression and New Deal; and World War II at home and abroad.
4 lessons · 10 practice questions
The Cold War (containment, key conflicts); the Civil Rights Movement (including Virginia's Massive Resistance); post-war domestic and social change; and contemporary political, economic, and foreign-policy developments.
4 lessons · 10 practice questions
Cross-cutting themes: how geography shaped U.S. development, the fundamentals of the American free-enterprise economy, and the principles and institutions of U.S. government and citizenship.
4 lessons · 10 practice questions
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