The American Pageant Author:Thomas A. Bailey The American Pageant, written by the late Thomas A. Bailey, is an American high school history textbook often used for AP US History courses. Since his death in 1983, it's been updated by historians David M. Kennedy & Lizabeth Cohen. — Prefaces — Acknowledgments — New World beginnings — The completion of English colonization — The duel for No... more »rth America
Colonial life on the eve of revolt
The road to revolution
America secedes from the empire
The confederation & the Constitution
Launching the new ship of state
Federalists & foreign friction
The triumph of Jeffersonian democracy
Madison & the second war for independence
The post-war upsurge of nationalism, 1815-24
The emergence of Jacksonian democracy
Jacksonian democracy at flood tide
Manifest Destiny in the forties
The revolution in industry & transportation, 1790-1860
Population, religion & education, 1790-1860
Social reform & cultural gains, 1790-1860
The South & the slavery controversy
Renewing the sectional struggle, 1848-54
Drifting toward disunion, 1854-61
The war for Southern independence
Behind the lines: North & South
The ordeal of reconstruction
Grantism & Republican rule, 1869-80
Personalities, politics & reform, 1880-89
Transportation, industry & labor, 1865-1900
New social & cultural horizons, 1865-1900
The great West & the agricultural revolution, 1865-90