U.S. History For High School Students from The American Pageant

U.S. History For High School Students from The American Pageant

The American Pageant may be the bestselling American U.S. history textbook ever written. It has sold many millions of copies, and every year thousands of high school and college students are required to read it. Advanced Placement (AP) history courses in high schools especially like to use The American Pageant as their text. This United States History text is one of the most readable, well-liked, and effective American history textbooks available thanks to its vivid anecdotes, first-person quotations, and trademark wit. The download/viewing links for each chapter in the 12th edition are given below, along with two note documents for each, one standard set and the other AP (advanced placement). Additionally, further below are slide presentations in pdf format. For more U.S. history materials, also look at U.S. History Lessons, Courses and Textbooks, Grades 6-12 and our history learning page.

United States History Chapters for High School Students from The American Pageant (all files pdf):

• Chapter 1, New World Beginnings 33,000 B.C. – A.D. 1783 — Outline Notes, AP Notes
• Chapter 2, The Planting of English America 1500-1733 — Outline Notes, AP Notes
• Chapter 3, Settling the Northern Colonies 1619-1700 — Outline Notes, AP Notes
• Chapter 4, American Life in the 17th Century 1607-1692 — Outline Notes, AP Notes
• Chapter 5, Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution 1700-1775 — Outline Notes, AP Notes
• Chapter 6, The Duel for North America 1608-1763 — Outline Notes, AP Notes
• Chapter 7, The Road to Revolution 1763-1775 — Outline Notes, AP Notes
• Chapter 8, America Secedes from the Empire 1775 – 1783 — Outline Notes, AP Notes
• Chapter 9, The Confederation and the Constitution — Outline Notes, AP Notes
• Chapter 10, Launching the New Ship of State — Outline Notes, AP Notes
• Chapter 11, The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic 1800-1812 — Outline Notes, AP Notes
• Chapter 12, The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism 1812-1824 — Outline Notes, AP Notes
• Chapter 13, The Rise of a Mass Democracy The Rise of a Mass Democracy — Outline Notes, AP Notes
• Chapter 14, Forging the National Economy 1790-1860 — Outline Notes, AP Notes
• Chapter 15, The Ferment of Reform and Culture 1790-1860 — Outline Notes, AP Notes
• Chapter 16, The South and the Slavery Controversy 1793-1860 — Outline Notes, AP Notes
• Chapter 17, Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy 1841-1848 — Outline Notes, AP Notes
• Chapter 18, Renewing the Sectional Struggle 1848-1854 — Outline Notes, AP Notes
• Chapter 19, Drifting Toward Disunion 1854-1861 — Outline Notes, AP Notes
• Chapter 20, Girding for War, The North and the South 1861-1865 — Outline Notes, AP Notes
• Chapter 21, The Furnace of Civil War 1861-1865 — Outline Notes, AP Notes
• Chapter 22, The Ordeal of Reconstruction 1865-1877 — Outline Notes, AP Notes
• Chapter 23, Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age 1869-1896 — Outline Notes, AP Notes
• Chapter 24, Industry Comes of Age 1865-1900 — Outline Notes, AP Notes
• Chapter 25, America Moves to the City 1865-1900 — Outline Notes, AP Notes
• Chapter 26, The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution 1865-1896 — Outline Notes, AP Notes
• Chapter 27, The Path of Empire 1890-1899 — Outline Notes, AP Notes
• Chapter 28, America on the World Stage 1899-1909 — Outline Notes, AP Notes
• Chapter 29, Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt 1901-1912 — Outline Notes, AP Notes
• Chapter 30, Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad 1912-1916 — Outline Notes, AP Notes
• Chapter 31, The War to End War 1917-1918 — Outline Notes, AP Notes
• Chapter 32, American Life in the Roaring Twenties 1919-1929 — Outline Notes, AP Notes
• Chapter 33, The Politics of Boom and Bust 1920-1932 — Outline Notes, AP Notes
• Chapter 34, The Great Depression and the New Deal — Outline Notes, AP Notes
• Chapter 35, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War 1933-1941 — Outline Notes, AP Notes
• Chapter 36, America in World War II — Outline Notes, AP Notes
• Chapter 37, The Cold War Begins 1945-1952 — Outline Notes, AP Notes
• Chapter 38, The Eisenhower Era 1952-1960 — Outline Notes, AP Notes
• Chapter 39, The Stormy Sixties 1960-1968 — Outline Notes, AP Notes
• Chapter 40, The Stalemated Seventies 1968-1980 — Outline Notes, AP Notes
• Chapter 41, The Resurgence of Conservatism 1980-2000 — Outline Notes, AP Notes
• Chapter 42, American People Face a New Century — Outline Notes, AP Notes

U.S. History Slide Presentations

• The Age of Exploration (35 slides, 8.30MB)

• Colonies (55 slides, 22.13MB)
• Life in the British Colonies (26 slides, 7.68MB)

• French and Indian War & Beginnings of Revolution (72 slides, 15.63MB)
• American Revolution (39 slides, 10.88MB)
• Articles of Confederation (24 slides, 4.24MB)
• The Constitution (19 slides, 4.44MB)
• Ratifying the Constitution (21 slides, 6.39MB)
• Washington and Adams (52 slides, 5.95MB)

• Jefferson, Madison & Monroe (56 slides, 17.31MB)
• Market & Transportation Revolutions (99 slides, 28.37MB)
• Jackson (29 slides, 13.39MB)
• Social Reforms (77 slides, 27.42MB)

• Manifest Destiny (35 slides, 14.55MB)
• Westward Expansion (37 slides, 20.76MB)
• Outbreak of the Civil War (25 slides, 5.67MB)
• Civil War (59 slides, 15.30MB)
• Reconstruction (54 slides, 12.57MB)

• Gilded Age-The West (158 slides, 76.80MB)
• Gilded Age-Big Business (70 slides, 33.56MB)
• Gilded Age-Immigration (104 slides, 63.85MB)

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