AP U.S. History
HERRICK
Period 5: 1844-1877
INSTRUCTIONS: Use the following focus questions and terms to guide your Cornell Notes.
Your notes must be handwritten in blue or black ink and need to cover the entire chapter. Only
thorough, complete work deserves full credit. Each set of notes is due the day of the chapter
quiz unless otherwise noted. Quiz dates will be posted ahead of time in class. Ask Mrs.
Herrick if you have any questions.
Chapter 13: A House Divided, 1840-1861
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What were the major factors contributing to U.S. territorial expansion in the 1840s?
Why did the expansion of slavery become the most divisive political issue in the 1840s and 1850s?
What combination of issues and events fueled the creation of the Republican Party in the 1850s?
What enabled Lincoln to emerge as president from the divisive party politics of the 1850s?
What were the final steps on the road to secession?
Vocabulary:
1. Santa Fe Trail
2. Tejanos
3. The Texas revolt
4. Wilmot Proviso
5. Free Soil Party
6. Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
7. Popular sovereignty
8. Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
9. Know-Nothing Party
10. The Slave Power
11. “Bleeding Kansas”
12. Charles Sumner
13. Dred Scott decision
14. Lecompton Constitution
15. Harpers Ferry
Chapter 14: A New Birth of Freedom: The Civil War, 1861-1865
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Why is the Civil War considered the first modern war?
How did a war to preserve the Union become a war to end slavery?
How did the Civil War transform the national economy and create a stronger nation-state?
How did the war effort and leadership problems affect the society and economy of the Confederacy?
What were the military and political turning points of the war?
What were the most important wartime “rehearsals for Reconstruction?”
Vocabulary:
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Monitor v. Merrimac
Army of the Potomac
Army of Northern Virginia
Battle of Antietam
5. Contraband of War
6. Radical Republicans
7. Emancipation Proclamation
8. Second American Revolution
9. Ex parte Milligan
10. Transcontinental railroad
11. National banking system
12. Women and war work
13. “King Cotton diplomacy”
14. Southern Unionists
15. Sea Island experiment
Chapter 15: “What is Freedom?”: Reconstruction, 1865-1877
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What visions of freedom did the former slaves and slaveholders pursue in the postwar South?
What were the sources, goals, and competing visions for Reconstruction?
What were the social and political effects of Radical Reconstruction in the South?
What were the main factors, in both the North and South for the abandonment of Reconstruction?
Vocabulary:
1. the Freedman’s Bureau
2. sharecropping
3. crop-lien system
4. Black Codes
5. Civil Rights Bill of 1866
6. Fourteenth Amendment
7. “swing around the circle”
8. “waving the bloody shirt”
9. Fifteenth Amendment
10. Literacy tests
11. Bradwell v. Illinois
12. Carpetbaggers
13. Scalawags
14. Enforcement Acts
15. Civil Rights Act of 1875
16. Slaughterhouse Cases
17. Redeemers
18. Bargain of 1877 (Compromise of 1877)