Chapter Outlines
Chapter outlines from "American Pageant (13th edition)" 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 23: Paralysis of Politics in the Gilded Age, 1869-1896
- 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