Chapter Readings By Unit
The American Pageant: 12th Edition
Unit 1 (Periods 1 and 2)
1491-1754
Unit 4 (Period 5)
1844-1877
Unit 6 (Period 7)
1890-1945
Chapter 1: New World Beginnings
Pg. 2-24
Chapter 16: The South and the Slavery
Controversy
Pg. 350-369
Chapter 29: Progressivism and the
Republican Roosevelt
Pg. 664-686
Chapter 17: Manifest Destiny and Its
Legacy
Pg. 370-389
Chapter 30: Wilsonian Progressivism at
Home and Abroad
Pg. 687-704
Chapter 18: Renewing the Sectional
Struggle
Pg. 390-408
Chapter 31: The War to End War
Pg. 705-727
Chapter 2: The Planting of English America
Pg. 25-42
Chapter 3: Settling the Northern Colonies
Pg. 43-65
Chapter 4: American Life in the
Seventeenth Century
Pg. 66-83
Chapter 5: Colonial Society on the Eve of
Revolution
Pg. 84-105
Unit 2 (Period 3)
1754-1800
Chapter 6: The Duel for North America
Pg. 106-121
Chapter 7: The Road to Revolution
Pg. 122-140
Chapter 8: America Secedes from the
Empire
Pg. 141-163
Chapter 9: Confederation and Constitution
Pg. 166-189
Chapter 10: Launching the New Ship of
State
Pg. 190-210
Unit 3 (Period 4)
1800-1848
Chapter 11: Triumphs and Travails of the
Jeffersonian Republic
Pg. 211-232
Chapter 12: The Second War for
Independence and the Upsurge of
Nationalism
Pg. 233-255
Chapter 13: The Rise of A Mass
Democracy
Pg. 256-286
Chapter 14: Forging the National Economy
Pg. 287-319
Chapter 15: The Ferment of Reform and
Culture
Pg. 320-347
Chapter 19: Drifting Towards Disunion
Pg. 409-433
Chapter 32: American Life in the “Roaring
Twenties”
Pg. 728-752
Chapter 20: Girding For War: The North
And South
Pg. 434-450
Chapter 33: The Politics of Boom and
Bust
Pg. 753-776
Chapter 21: The Furnace of Civil War
Pg. 450-476
Chapter 34: The Great Depression and the
New Deal
Pg. 777-804
Chapter 22: The Ordeal of Reconstruction
Pg. 477-499
Unit 5 (Period 6)
1865-1898
Chapter 23: Political Paralysis in the Gilded
Age
Pg. 502-527
Chapter 24: Industry Comes of Age
Pg. 528-556
Chapter 25: America Moves to the City
Pg. 557-589
Chapter 35: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the
Shadow of War
Pg. 806-826
Chapter 36: America in WWII
Pg. 827-855
Unit 7 (Period 8)
1945-1980
Chapter 37: The Cold War Begins
Pg. 858-885
Chapter 38: The Eisenhower Era
Pg. 887-915
Chapter 26: The Great West and the
Agricultural Revolution
Pg. 590-622
Chapter 39: The Stormy Sixties
Pg. 916-945
Chapter 27: The Path of Empire
Pg. 623-643
Chapter 40: The Stalemated Seventies
Pg. 946-975
Chapter 28: America on the World Stage
Pg. 646-663
Unit 8 (Period 9)
1980- Present
Chapter 41: The Resurgence of
Conservatism
Pg. 976-1013
Chapter 42: The American People Face a
New Century
Pg. 1014-1034