APUSH: UNIT 5 OVERVIEW
Fractured Nation: 1820-1861
TEXT REFERENCES:
KCB: CHAPTERS 16-19
Key Concepts (same as Unit 4)
13. The United States became more connected with the world as it pursued an expansionist foreign
policy in the Western Hemisphere and emerged as the destination for many migrants from other
countries.
14. Intensified by expansion and deepening regional divisions, debates over slavery and other
economic, cultural, and political issues led the nation into civil war.
UNIT 5 VOCABULARY: NEED TO KNOW!
 Utilize the following as you read for Unit 5. Complete HTS paragraphs for those that are shaded

BLUE. You will find further instructions in Canvas, INCLUDING THE DUE DATE!
Note the PEOPLE MARKED IN RED – explanation on the next page!
CHAPTER 16
CHAPTER 17
CHAPTER 18
CHAPTER 19
West Africa Squadron
breakers
black belt
responsorial
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
Amistad
*American Colonization Society
Liberia
*“The Liberator”
American Anti-Slavery Society
“Appeal to the Colored Citizens
of the World”
Narrative of the Life of
Frederick Douglass
Mason-Dixon Line
Gag Resolution
Tariff of 1842
“Caroline”
“Creole”
Aroostook War
*Manifest Destiny
*“Fifty-four forty or fight!”
Liberty Party
Walker Tariff
spot resolutions
California Bear Flag Republic
Battle of Buena Vista
*Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Conscience Whigs
Wilmot Proviso
Popular Sovereignty
*Free Soil Party
California Gold Rush
Underground Railroad
Seventh of March Speech
*Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Law
Clayton-Bulwar Treaty
Ostend Manifesto
Opium War
Treaty of Wanghia
Treaty of Kanagawa
Gadsden Purchase
*Kansas-Nebraska Act
John Tyler
James K. Polk
Stephen W. Kearny
John C. Fremont
Winfield Scott
Nicholas P. Trist
David Wilmot
Lewis Cass
Zachary Taylor
Harriet Tubman
Millard Fillmore
Franklin Pierce
William Walker
Caleb Cushing
Matthew C. Perry
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The Impending Crisis of the South
New England Emigrant Aid
Company
Lecompton Constitution
Bleeding Kansas
*Dred Scott v. Stanford
panic of 1857
Tariff of 1857
*Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Freeport Question
Freeport Doctrine
Harpers Ferry
Constitutional Union Party
Confederate States of America
Crittenden Amendments
William T. Johnson
Nat Turner
William Wilberforce
Theodore Dwight Weld
William Lloyd Garrison
David Walker
Sojourner Truth
Martin Delany
Frederick Douglass
History is the interpretation of past events
with an eye on the present and a vision of
the future!
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Henry War Beecher
James Buchanan
Charles Sumner
Preston S. Brooks
Dred Scott
Roger B. Taney
Stephen A. Douglas
Abraham Lincoln
John Brown
John C. Breckinridge
John Jordan Crittenden
SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR UNIT 5 (we will be on this unit until mid-December)
1.
Note the reading schedule on the class calendar (main APUSH page). You need to maintain
a steady diet of reading!
2. Beyond the normal HTS paragraph work, we will also use the following devices to explore
this period of our history:
 “PERSPECTIVES” ASSIGNMENT
To personalize our study of the antebellum period, you will each be assigned one of the
people from page 1 (shaded in red) and will explore the pre-war period from their
perspective. We will complete IN-CLASS APPLICATIONS related to your research.
 WRITING EMPHASIS
For continued work on essay skills, YOU WILL BE COMPLETING THE JACKSONIAN DBQ
DURING THIS UNIT ALSO!
“I, John Brown, am now quite
certain that the crimes of this
guilty land will never be purged
away but with Blood!”
(or . . . egads, this guy is having a
bad hair day or what!”
John Brown, 1859
“Right on, Brother
Abraham! My students
say that all the time!”
“Fellow Citizens –
We cannot escape
history.”
“Right on, Brother John!
My students are going to
love you, baby!”
Lincoln, 1862
Let us pause in life's pleasures
And count its many tears,
While we all sup sorrow with the poor;
There's a song that will linger
Forever in our ears;
Oh hard times come again no more.
-- Stephen Foster’s “Hard Times”
“WAIT A MINUTE! WHAT AM I
DOING HERE? I WASN’T AROUND
UNTIL 1959! GADZOOKS!”