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Below you will find notes for the 14th edition of the A.P. U.S. History textbook, The American Pageant. The links provide detailed summaries on American/US history from one of the most popular US History textbooks in the United States. This edition was released in 2010, and it covers history in the United States from 33,000 B.C. to 2004.

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
Chapter 9 - The Confederation and the Constitution
Chapter 10 - Launching the New Ship of State
Chapter 11 - The Triumphs and the 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 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
Chapter 28 - Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt
Chapter 29 - Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad
Chapter 30 - The War to End War
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 - America in World War II
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
Chapter 41 - America Confronts the Post-Cold War Era
Chapter 42 - The American People Face a New Century

The American Pageant - 14th Edition