The American pageant
Subtitle: a history of the American people
By: David M. Kennedy, Lizabeth Cohen
Contributors: Cohen, Lizabeth
Edition: 15th ed., AP ed.
Publisher: Wadsworth Cengage Learning
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781111831066
Subjects: Textbooks; History
Table of contents: title: Part one : Founding the new nation : c. 33,000 B.C.E.-1783 C.E.; title: New World beginnings; title: The planting of English America; title: Settling the northern colonies; title: American life in the seventeenth century; title: Colonial society on the eve of revolution; title: The duel for North America; title: The road to revolution; title: America secedes from the Empire; title: Part two : Building the new nation : c. 1776-1860.; title: The Confederation and the Constitution; title: Launching the new ship of state; title: The triumphs and travails of the Jeffersonian republic; title: The second war for independence and the upsurge of nationalism; title: The rise of a mass democracy; title: Forging the national economy; title: The ferment of reform and culture; title: Part three : Testing the new nation : 1820-1877.; title: The South and the slavery controversy; title: Manifest Destiny and its legacy; title: Renewing the sectional struggle; title: Drifting toward disunion; title: Girding for war : the North and the South; title: The furnace of Civil War; title: The ordeal of Reconstruction; title: Part four : Forging an industrial society.; title: Political paralysis in the Gilded Age; title: Industry comes of age; title: America moves to the city; title: The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution; title: Empire and expansion; title: Part five : Struggling for justice at home and abroad : 1901-1945.; title: Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt; title: Wilsonian progressivism at home and abroad; title: The war to end war; title: American life in the "roaring twenties"; title: The politics of boom and bust; title: The Great Depression and the New Deal; title: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the shadow of war; title: America in World War II; title: Part six : Making modern America : 1945 to the present.; title: The Cold War begins; title: The Eisenhower era; title: The stormy Sixties; title: The stalemated Seventies; title: The resurgence of conservatism; title: America confronts the post-Cold War era; title: The American people face a new century; title: Appendix.; title: Documents; title: Glossary of key terms; title: Practice material for the AP U.S. History Examination; title: Document-based questions (DBQs); title: Free-response essay questions