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Below are notes for the 17th edition of the The American Pageant textbook. Not using this edition? See notes for all editions below the fold.
- Chapter 1 - New World Beginnings
- Chapter 2 - The Contest for North America
- Chapter 3 - Settling the English Colonies
- Chapter 4 - American Life in the 17th Century
- Chapter 5 - Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution
- Chapter 6 - The Road to Revolution
- Chapter 7 - America Secedes from the Empire
- Chapter 8 - The Confederation and the Constitution
- Chapter 9 - Launching the New Ship of State
- Chapter 10 - The Triumphs and the Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic
- Chapter 11 - The War of 1812 and the Upsurge of Nationalism
- Chapter 12 - The Rise of a Mass Democracy
- Chapter 13 - Forging the National Economy
- Chapter 14 - The Ferment of Reform and Culture
- Chapter 15 - The South and Slavery
- Chapter 16 - Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy
- Chapter 17 - Renewing the Sectional Struggle
- Chapter 18 - Drifting Toward Disunion
- Chapter 19 - Girding for War: The North and the South
- Chapter 20 - The Furnace of Civil War
- Chapter 21 - The Ordeal of Reconstruction
- Chapter 22 - The Industrial Era Dawns
- Chapter 23 - Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age
- Chapter 24 - America Moves to the City
- Chapter 25 - The Conquest of the West
- Chapter 26 - Rumbles of Discontent
- Chapter 27 - Empire and Expansion
- Chapter 28 - Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt
- Chapter 29 - Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad
- Chapter 30 - American Life in the "Roaring Twenties"
- Chapter 31 - The Great Depression and the New Deal
- Chapter 32 - Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War
- Chapter 33 - America in World War II
- Chapter 34 - The Cold War Begins
- Chapter 35 - American Zenith/a>
- Chapter 36 - The Stormy Sixties
- Chapter 37 - A Sea of Troubles
- Chapter 38 - The Resurgence of Conservatism
- Chapter 39 - America Confronts the Post-Cold War Era
- Chapter 40 - The American People Face a New Century
