Chapter Outlines

Chapter outlines from "American Pageant" to help you review what you've read, chapter-by-chapter. Use this information to ace your AP U.S. History quizzes and tests!

• Chapter 2: The Planting of English America, 1500-1733
• Chapter 3: Settling the Northern Colonies, 1619-1700
• Chapter 4: American Life in the Seventeenth Century, 1607-1692
• Chapter 5: Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution, 1700-1775
• Chapter 7: The Road to Revolution, 1763-1775
• Chapter 8: America Secedes from the Empire, 1775-1783
• Chapter 9: The Confederation and the Constitution, 1776-1790
• Chapter 10: Launching the New Ship of State, 1789-1800
• Chapter 12: The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism, 1812-1824
• Chapter 13: The Rise of a Mass Democracy, 1824-1840
• Chapter 14: Forging the National Economy, 1790-1860
• Chapter 15: The Ferment of Reform and Culture, 1790-1860
• Chapter 16: The South and the Slavery Controversy, 1793-1860
• Chapter 17: Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy, 1841-1848
• Chapter 18: Renewing the Sectional Struggle, 1848-1854
• Chapter 19: Drifting Toward Disunion, 1854-1861
• Chapter 20: Girding for War - The North and the South, 1861-1865
• Chapter 21: The Furnace of Civil War, 1861-1865
• Chapter 22: The Ordeal of Reconstruction, 1865-1877
• Chapter 24: Industry Comes of Age, 1865-1900
• Chapter 25: America Moves to the City, 1865-1900
• Chapter 26: The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution, 1865-1896
• Chapter 27: The Path of Empire, 1890-1899
• Chapter 28: America on the World Stage, 1899-1909
• Chapter 29: Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt, 1901-1912
• Chapter 30: Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad, 1912-1916
• Chapter 31: The War to End War, 1917-1918
• Chapter 32: American Life in the “Roaring Twenties,” 1919-1929
• Chapter 33: The Politics of Boom and Bust, 1920-1932
• Chapter 34: The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1933-1939
• Chapter 35: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War, 1933-1941
• Chapter 36: America in World War II: 1941-1945
• Chapter 37: The Cold War Begins, 1945-1952
• Chapter 38: The Eisenhower Era, 1952-1960
• Chapter 39: The Stormy Sixties, 1960-1968
• Chapter 40: The Stalemated Seventies, 1968-1980
• Chapter 41: The Resurgence of Conservatism, 1980-2000