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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