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Kennedy, Cohen, & Bailey. The American Pageant. Houghton Mifflin Company: Boston, 2006.

The American Pageant Notes - Abbreviated Notes
The American Pageant Vocabulary
AP US History Notecards

Founding the New Nation
Chapter 1 - New World Beginnings
Chapter 2 - The Planting of English America
Chapter 3 - Settling the Northern Colonies
Chapter 4 - American Life in the 17th Century
Chapter 5 - Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution
Chapter 6 - The Duel for North America
Chapter 7 - The Road to Revolution
Chapter 8 - America Secedes from the Empire

Building the New Nation
Chapter 9 - The Confederation and the Constitution
Chapter 10 - Launching the New Ship of State
Chapter 11 - The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic
Chapter 12 - The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism
Chapter 13 - The Rise of a Mass Democracy
Chapter 14 - Forging the National Economy
Chapter 15 - The Ferment of Reform and Culture

Testing the New Nation
Chapter 16 - The South and the Slavery Controversy
Chapter 17 - Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy
Chapter 18 - Renewing the Sectional Struggle
Chapter 19 - Drifting Toward Disunion
Chapter 20 - Girding for War: The North and the South
Chapter 21 - The Furnace of Civil War
Chatper 22 - The Ordeal of Reconstruction

Forging an Industrial Society
Chapter 23 - Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age
Chapter 24 - Industry Comes of Age
Chapter 25 - America Moves to the City
Chapter 26 - The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution
Chapter 27 - Empire and Expansion

Struggling for Justice at Home and Abroad
Chapter 28 - Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt
Chapter 29 - Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad
Chapter 30 - World War I
Chapter 31 - American Life in the Roaring Twenties
Chapter 32 - The Politics of Boom and Bust
Chapter 33 - The Great Depression and the New Deal
Chapter 34 - Franklin D Roosevelt and the Shadow of War
Chapter 35 - World War II

Making Modern America
Chapter 36 - The Cold War Begins
Chapter 37 - The Eisenhower Era
Chapter 38 - The Stormy Sixties
Chapter 39 - The Stalemated Seventies
Chapter 40 - The Resurgence of Conservatism