Period 5: 1844 - 1877
Period 5 is worth 13% of the AP Exam. This period will be covered in approximately 8 class periods.
The College Board uses key concepts to denote the testable material for each period. The full, detailed version of these concepts are located here. Please take the time to know these concepts, as anything mentioned is fair game for the AP Exam.
Key Concept 5.1— The United States became more connected with the world, pursued an expansionist foreign policy in the Western Hemisphere, and emerged as the destination for many migrants from other countries.
Key Concept 5.2— Intensified by expansion and deepening regional divisions, debates over slavery and other economic cultural, and political issues led the nation into civil war.
Key Concept 5.3— The Union victory in the Civil War and the contested reconstruction of the South settled the issues of slavery and secession, but left unresolved many questions about the power of the federal government and citizenship rights.
Period 5 Key Terms
Key terms that will be an invaluable study tool as we get closer to the AP exam in May. Each term should include the information provided on Quizlet.
Chapter 11
Manifest Destiny
Overland Trail
Mexican American War
Mexican Cession
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Wilmot Proviso
Popular sovereignty
Chapter 12
Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Act
Underground Railroad
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Know-Nothings
Bleeding Kansas
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Lincoln-Douglas debates
John Brown’s raid
Crittenden Compromise
Election of 1860
Chapter 13
Border states
Cotton embargo
Trent affair
Peninsular campaign
Emancipation Proclamation
Copperheads
Conscription Act
Draft Riots
Sherman’s March to the Sea
Special Field Order No. 15
Chapter 14
10% Plan (Presidential Reconstruction)
Freedmen’s Bureau
Black Codes
Jim Crow laws
Carpetbaggers
Scalawag
Reconstruction Amendments
Congressional/Radical Reconstruction
Mississippi Plan
Redeemers
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Compromise of 1877
New South
Chapter 15
Homestead Act
Transcontinental Railroad
Exodusters
Grange
Battle of Little Bighorn
Dawes Severalty Act
Wounded Knee Massacre
Frontier Thesis