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Welcome, Class of 2012! Your AP US History exam will be on Friday, May 6, 2011.

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The American Pageant (PDF Files)


Please note that these chapters come from The American Pageant, 12th edition. If you are currently using the 14th edition, please cross reference your book to ensure that you're reading the correct material.

Chapter 1: New World Beginnings

Chapter 2: The Planting of English America

Chapter 3: Settling the Northern Colonies

Chapter 4: American Life in the Seventeenth 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

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

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

Chapter 22: The Ordeal of Reconstruction

Chapter 23: Political Paralysis in the Guilded 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: The Path of Empire

Chapter 28: America on the World Stage

Chapter 29: Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt

Chapter 30: Wilsoniam Progressivism at Home and Abroad

Chapter 31: The War to End War

Chapter 32: American Life in the Roaring Twenties

Chapter 33: The Politics of Boom and Bust

Chapter 34: The Great Depression and the New Deal

Chapter 35: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War

Chapter 36: America in World War II

Chapter 37: The Cold War Begins

Chapter 38: The Eisenhower Era

Chapter 39: The Stormy Sixties

Chapter 40: The Stalemated Seventies

Chapter 41: The Resurgence of Conservatism

Chapter 42: The American People Face a New Century