Period 5 1844-1877

You’ll learn how the nation expanded and you’ll explore the events that led to the secession of Southern states and the Civil War.

Topics may include:

• Manifest Destiny

• The Mexican–American War

• Attempts to resolve conflicts over the spread of slavery

• The election of 1860 and Southern secession

• The Civil War

• Reconstruction

On The Exam

10%–17% of score

Documents

Buying Frederick Douglass’s freedom, 1846

An African American protests the Fugitive Slave Law, 1850

“The whole land is full of blood,” 1851

Harriet Beecher Stowe sends Uncle Tom’s Cabin to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, 1852

Runaway slave ad, 1852

Slave auction catalog from Louisiana, 1855

“Bleeding Kansas” and the Pottawatomie Massacre, 1856

The “House Divided” Speech, ca. 1857–1858

John Brown’s final speech, 1859

The Union Is Dissolved!, 1860

A proposed Thirteenth Amendment to prevent secession, 1861

Best friends divided by the Civil War, 1861

President Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address, 1861

Lincoln on the execution of a slave trader, 1862

A proclamation on the suspension of habeas corpus, 1862

On the emigrant trail, 1862

The Gettysburg Address, 1863

Slave Children of New Orleans, 1863

African American soldiers at the Battle of Fort Wagner, 1863

President Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, 1865

Charles Sumner on Reconstruction and the South, 1866

Sharecropper contract, 1867