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APUSH Study Guide – Unit 5 Exam
CHAPTER 16: The South and Slavery
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What are the social and economic characteristics of the antebellum North?
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What are the social and economic characteristics of the antebellum South?
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Social Hierarchy of the South:
o Most white slave-owning families owned how many slaves? 
o What % of the white southern population owned NO slaves 
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Slave life and culture:
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Free Black population (restriction of rights, characteristics, etc):
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Nat Turner 
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Abolitionists
o William Lloyd Garrison o Frederick Douglass –
o Harriet Tubman 
o American Colonization Society 
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How did southerners justify slavery?
CHAPTER 17: (AMPA): Manifest Destiny
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Annexation of Texas
o Causes
o Effects
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Oregon Territory -
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Mexican American War
o Causes o Effects:
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Election of 1844 -
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Wilmot Proviso -
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Manifest Destiny (what political groups supported it, which didn't)
CHAPTER 13 (AMSCO): Union in Peril
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Political Parties characteristics and beliefs:
o Free-Soil Party –
o Whigs –
o Democrats –
o Republicans –
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California Gold Rush (significance) -
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Compromise of 1850 (what was included, controversy)
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Popular Sovereignty (define)
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Election of 1852 (significance) -
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
o Causes -
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o
Effects Uncle Tom’s Cabin (effect) –
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Dred-Scott Case (decision/effect) –
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates –
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John Brown –
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Election of 1860 –
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Crittenden Amendment –
CHAPTER 14 (AMSCO): The Civil War
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What were the advantages of the North?
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What were the advantages of the South?
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Why were the border states important -
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What was the initial purpose of the war (for the North vs South):
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How did Lincoln abuse executive power?
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Why did King Cotton fail?
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The Draft (characteristics of both the North & South):
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Emancipation Proclamation: (what / effect)
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What were the major legislative accomplishments of the North during the war?
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Compare and contrast the economies of the North and South:
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What were the turning points of the war and why? (battles)
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Copperheads –
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What was the role of African Americans in the war?
CHAPTER 22 (AMPA): Reconstruction
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What was Reconstruction? What were the major goals?
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Lincoln’s 10% plan –
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Andrew Johnson (relationship w/ congress, impeachment) –
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What were black codes?
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Freedman’s Bureau –
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Radical vs. Moderate Republicans:
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13th Amendment –
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14th Amendment –
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15th Amendment –
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Military Reconstruction:
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Sharecropping -
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Carpetbaggers –
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What strategies did white southerners use to fight against reconstruction?
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Sewards Folly –
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What were the successes and failures of Reconstruction?