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Whitebird, Alona
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AP United States History
- APUSH Syllabus
- APUSH Chapter Anticipation Guides
- APUSH Class Notes
- APUSH Reading Assignments
- Period 1 (1491-1607)
- Period 2 (1607-1754)
- Period 3 (1754-1800)
- Period 4 (1800-1848)
- Period 5 (1844-1877)
- Period 6 (1865-1898)
- Period 7 (1890-1945)
- Period 8 (1945-1980)
- Period 9 (1980-Present)
- APUSH Additional Resources
- Helpful AP Links
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Period 5 is worth 13% of the AP Exam. This period will be covered in approximately 19 class days.
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 Homework and Test Calendar
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Period 5 Key Terms/IDs
Key terms will be due at the conclusion of each period on the test date, unless otherwise specified. These terms will be worth 100 points per period, and 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. You have two options to receive the credit for key terms: 1. Create a notecard for each term using the definition on Quizlet and any additional relevant information from the book or 2. Create a Quizlet account, join my class by clicking here, and complete LEARN, FLASHCARD, and one other method of your choice by 8:20am on the due date. If not completed before 8:20am, no credit will be given.
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
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Period 5 Reading Guides and Assignments
The following reading guides go along with Visions of America (green textbook). The links will lead you to some of the nightly homework readings, the Opposing Viewpoints articles. If you need hard copies of the Opposing Viewpoints, please see me in class before the reading is due. Along with the nightly readings attached below you will need to complete an article review sheet, attached here. Without this article review sheet, you will not be permitted to complete the in class assignment associated with the reading. Anticipation Guides will always be handed out in class, but if you are absent the day it is given out you must print your own AG, or see me before the absence.
Reading Guides
Articles
War with Mexico | Article Review Sheet
Primary Goal of the Civil War | Article Review Sheet
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Period 5 Lectures/Powerpoints
The following links will navigate you to PDF files of the in-class lectures. The inclusion of these notes below should not be considered as a substitute for taking notes and paying attention in class. These notes are provided so that you have access to visual images used in class as well as for absent students to get caught up.