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Book SynopsisYou may not think that a history book could make you laugh, but THE AMERICAN PAGEANT just might. It's known for being one of the most popular, effective and entertaining texts on American history. Colorful anecdotes, first-person quotations and the authors' trademark wit bring history to life. Learning aids make the book as accessible as it is enjoyable: part openers and chapter-ending chronologies provide a context for the major periods in American history, while primary sources and introductions to key historical figures give you a front row seat to the nation's past.
Table of ContentsPART I: PEOPLING A CONTINENT c. 33,000 B.C.E. ��� 1700 C.E. 1. New World Beginnings 33,000 B.C.E. ��� 1680 C.E. 2. Aspiring Empires in North America 1500 ��� 1664. 3. Settling the English Colonies 1619 ��� 1700. PART II: BUILDING A BRITISH NORTH AMERICA 1607 ��� 1775. 4. American Life in the Seventeenth Century 1607 ��� 1692. 5. Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution 1700 ��� 1775. 6. The Road to Revolution 1754 ��� 1775. PART III: FOUNDING A NEW NATION 1775 ��� 1800. 7. America Secedes from the Empire 1775 ��� 1783. 8. The Confederation and the Constitution 1776 ��� 1790. 9. Launching the New Ship of State 1789 ��� 1800. PART IV: BUILDING THE NEW NATION 1800 ��� 1860. 10. The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic 1800 ��� 1812. 11. The War of 1812 and the Upsurge of Nationalism 1812 ��� 1824. 12. The Rise of a Mass Democracy 1824 ��� 1840. 13. Forging the National Economy 1790 ��� 1860. 14. The Ferment of Reform and Culture 1790 ��� 1860. 15. The South and Slavery 1793 ��� 1860. PART V: TESTING THE NEW NATION 1841 ��� 1877. 16. Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy 1841 ��� 1848. 17. Renewing the Sectional Struggle 1848 ��� 1854. 18. Drifting Toward Disunion 1854 ��� 1861. 19. Girding for War: The North and the South 1861 ��� 1865. 20. The Furnace of Civil War 1861 ��� 1865. 21. The Ordeal of Reconstruction 1865 ��� 1877.
