US History → study guide
History tests rarely ask you to recite a date in isolation. They ask why something happened, what changed and what stayed the same, and how a document fits its time. A good US history study guide organizes the facts — people, events, laws, court cases — around those causes, effects and connections, so you can use them as evidence in an argument.
Also generate a fill-in-the-blank worksheet + answer key (separate page in Word/PDF). No extra AI call.
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Upload your teacher's slides, a text-based PDF reading or textbook chapter, a Word handout, or paste your notes. Study Guide Maker builds an outline of the period, explains key developments in plain language, writes a glossary of terms and people, and adds practice questions and flashcards — each tagged to the page or slide it came from so you can go back to the reading.
Choose High school, AP/IB or College to match your course. Make one guide per unit or period, then add your own thesis-practice prompts — the guide gives you organized evidence, and writing short arguments with it is what prepares you for essay questions. Taking APUSH? See our APUSH page for the exam format published by the College Board.
Major developments in order, with dates and page references.
For each major development: causes, effects and why it matters.
Who or what, when, and significance — one line each.
Links across periods (e.g., federal power, migration, reform movements) for essay evidence.
Add excerpts from class: who wrote it, audience, purpose, context.
Terms and concepts to define precisely.
Multiple choice and short answer with explanations.
People, events and terms; export as CSV.
Upload a PDF, PowerPoint, Word or text file — or paste your notes.
Study Guide Maker builds an outline, key concepts, glossary, practice questions, and flashcards, and tags every point with the page it came from.
Quiz yourself right on the page, flip through flashcards, or export to PDF, Word and CSV.
A sample guide built from a short biology handout. Page tags show where each point came from.
Biology
Cellular respiration is how cells turn the chemical energy in glucose into ATP. It happens in three stages — glycolysis, the Krebs cycle, and the electron transport chain — and releases carbon dioxide and water as by-products.
Sample output for illustration.
Yes. Upload a text-based PDF or Word file, or paste the text. Each key development in the guide cites the page it came from.
No. It builds a study guide — an outline, key developments, a glossary, practice questions and flashcards — that you can use as evidence when you practice writing your own responses.
Yes as a review tool: choose the AP/IB level and make one guide per period from your class materials. See our APUSH page for the exam format and period weightings.
Yes, if they're text. Paste a document excerpt or upload it as a text-based file. Images such as political cartoons or maps aren't read.
You can make 2 guides a day without an account, or 10 a month after signing in with Google.