Download Period 5 – Expansion, Separation, and a New Union

AP US History – Reading Guide
PERIOD 5 – EXPANSION, SEPARATION, AND A NEW UNION,
(1844–1877)
CHAPTER 12
LIVING IN A NATION OF CHANGING LANDS, CHANGING FACES, CHANGING EXPECTATIONS, 1831–1854
Chapter Objectives:
As the nation expanded and its population grew, regional tensions, especially over slavery, led
to a civil war—the course and aftermath of which transformed American society.
 Analyze how immigration from China, Ireland, and Germany, as well as the
incorporation of Mexican citizens in the Southwest, changed the United States.
 Explain how the lives of slaves, slaveholders, and abolitionists evolved in the decades
before the Civil War.
 Describe how the women’s rights movement developed in the United States in the
1830s and 1840s.
Terms To Know:
Great Famine of 1845–1850
Know Nothing Party
Committees of Vigilance
Gadsden Purchase
Underground Railroad
The Liberator
American Anti-Slavery Society
Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions
Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention
HW #10 - “Discrimination was common against people unlike the white Protestant majority in
the United States during the early 19th century.”
a. Choose TWO groups from the reading and explain how the treatment of each
group best demonstrates the validity of this statement.
b. Briefly explain whether there were any variations in discrimination in different
sections of the country.
(Answer in the same way/format you would for a Short Answer question)
HW #11 –
Briefly explain why TWO of the following best support the view that by the mid19th century, the antislavery movement had gradually become more radical.
- American Colonization Society
- The Liberator
- Nat Turner
Briefly explain ONE critical response to the changes during this period.
(Answer in the same way/format you would for a Short Answer question)
CHAPTER 13
THE POLITICS OF SEPARATION, 1850–1861
Chapter Objectives:
Demonstrate an understanding of the growing split between the North and the South that led
to secession and civil war.
 Analyze the political jockeying in Congress and how reaction to the Fugitive Slave Act
and the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin changed the opinions of many Americans—
South and the North—making a break between them hard to avoid.
 Analyze the causes and consequences of the battle over slavery in Kansas and the
Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scott case and the impact of those events on public
opinion.
 Explain how the economic crisis of 1857 and the growing political crises of the decade
impacted each other and led the nation to divide.
 Analyze the political impact of John Brown’s raid and why Lincoln won the presidential
election of 1860 and the southern states then voted to leave.
Terms to Know:
Wilmot Proviso
Fugitive Slave Act
Popular sovereignty
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Republican Party
Lecompton Constitution
Bleeding Kansas
Dred Scott v Sandford
Panic of 1857
Mason-Dixon Line
Crittenden Compromise
CHAPTER 14
AND THE WAR CAME: THE CIVIL WAR, 1844–1877
Chapter Objectives:
Demonstrate an understanding of the strategies involved in fighting a civil war and the impact
of the war on American life—North and South.
 Explain how the early battles of the war shaped future events.
 Analyze how the war influenced attitudes toward slavery in black and white
communities, leading to the Emancipation Proclamation and to black soldiers in the
Union army.
 Explain how the war’s death toll and civilian shortages affected life—North and South—
during the war.
 Analyze the strategies and costs of fighting a long and terrible war.
Terms to Know:
Rebel yell
Army of the Potomac
Army of Northern Virginia
Contrabands
Colonization
Peace Democrats
Internal Revenue Service
Greenbacks
New York Draft Riot
Sanitary Commission
CHAPTER 15
RECONSTRUCTION, 1844–1877
Chapter Objectives:
Demonstrate an understanding of the development and decline of Reconstruction.
 Explain the political development of the Federal Reconstruction policy.
 Explain the impact of Reconstruction on African American life in the South.
 Analyze the reasons Reconstruction ended and the impact of Redemption.
Terms to Know:
Radical Republicans
Freedmen’s Bureau
Presidential Reconstruction
Congressional Reconstruction
“Redemption”
Black Codes
Union Leagues
Sharecropping
Scalawags
Carpetbaggers
Ku Klux Klan
Jim Crow segregation