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Below you will find notes for the 17th edition of the 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 2018, and it covers history in the United States from 33,000 B.C. to 2018.

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
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

The American Pageant - 17th Edition