APUSH Unit 5 Syllabus
Topics Discussed:
 Manifest Destiny
 Antebellum Society in the South
 Sectional Crisis
 Civil War
 Reconstruction
Unit Objectives:
Students will understand the economics of slavery and its racial dimensions.
Analyze the transformation of society in Antebellum America.
Learn of the patterns of resistance and the long-term economic, political, and social effects of slavery.
Analyze the causes and effects of territorial expansion and Manifest Destiny.
Analyze and discuss the causes of the sectional crisis of the 1850s and how the crisis led to disunion and Civil War.
Sectionalism plunged the United States into Civil War, but the valued institutions of the nation emerged virtually
intact. To what extent is this statement true?
Analyze the social, economic, and political impact that the Civil War had on the different regions of the United
States.
Reading Assignments:
Out of Many-Chapters 10, 14, 15, 16, 17
Zinn-A People’s History of the United States-Chapter 9
Date
Topic
Reading Assignment
11/4
11/5
Go over unit test and essay
Antebellum South-Slave Society and African-American
Communities
Antebellum South
Antebellum South
Out of Many: Chapter 10
Out of Many Chapter 10
Comparing Harriett Jacobs to Frederick Douglass
Manifest Destiny
Mexican-American War
Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Crisis and the Rise of the Republican
Party
Buchanan and the Secession Crisis
Election of 1860
Causes of the Civil War
Election of 1860
Causes of the Civil War
War’s Early Course
-Comparing Armies/Governments
-Military strategy
War’s early course
-diplomacy and economic development
Emancipation and the role of African-Americans
Women and the War
-Civil Liberties during the War;Conscription and the New
York City Draft Riots; End of the War; Impact of the War
Performance Exam
Out of Many Quiz Chapter 14 pgs. 455-470
11/6
11/7
11/8
11/11
11/12
11/13
11/14
11/15
11/18
11/19
11/20
11/21
11/22
12/2
12/3
Out of Many Chapter 10 Quiz
Seminar discussion over Zinn chapter 9 pgs. 171-186
Bring three questions to class with answers.
Out of Many Quiz Chapter 14 pgs. 471-484
Out of Many Quiz Chapter 15 pgs.492-507
Out of Many Quiz Chapter 15 pgs. 508-521
Out of Many Quiz Chapter 16 pgs. 530-545
Out of Many Quiz Chapter 16 pgs. 546-561
Performance Exam
12/4
12/5
12/6
12/9
Reconstruction
-Freedman’s Bureau
-Lincoln’s 10% Plan
-Johnson’s Plan for Reconstruction
-Reconstruction
-Johnson’s impeachment
-Congressional Reconstruction goals/Radical
Reconstruction
Reconstructing the South
-Southern Governments during Reconstruction/Bourbon
Redeemers or Redemption in the South
-African-American roles in the South during
Reconstruction
The Grant Presidency
-Grant Administration's scandals and corruption
-The North during Reconstruction and the Panic of 1873
Out of Many Quiz Chapter 17 pgs. 568-585
12/10
The End of Reconstruction
-Election of 1876 and the Compromise of 1877
Out of Many Quiz Chapter 17 pgs. 586-598
12/11
Seminar Discussion over Zinn
Ch. 9-Slavery without Submission, Emancipation with
Freedom-pgs. 187-210
Bring 3 sophisticated questions to class, with your answers,
and we will have a Socratic discussion.
Worth a Quiz Grade
12/12
Unit 5 Objective Test
Objective Test
12/1312/17
12/1812/20
REVIEW FOR FINAL EXAM
1st period Final Exam (12/17 is first period final)
FINAL EXAMS
FINAL EXAMS
IDS for each chapter. Explain who, what, when, where, and why important in complete
sentences. Terms are optional
Chapter 10-Antebellum
1. Richard Allen
2. Nat Turner’s Revolt
3. George Fitzhugh
4. Gabriel’s Rebellion
5. Yeoman versus Planter class
6. Denmark Vesey Plot
Chapter 16: Civil War
1. Homestead Act
2. Morrill Land Grant Act
3. Emancipation Proclamation
4. Legal Tender Act
5. National Banking Act
6. Clara Barton
7. New York City Draft Riots
8. Copperheads
9. Election of 1864
10. Cotton Diplomacy
Chapter 14-Manfest Destiny
1. Zebulon Pike
2. Sante Fe Trail
3. Overland Trail
4. Manifest Destiny
5. Empresario
6. James K. Polk
7. Wilmot’s Proviso
8. Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
9. Zachary Taylor
10. Popular Sovereignty
Chapter 15-Sectional Crisis
1. Lincoln-Douglas Debates
2. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
3. Compromise of 1850
4. Franklin Pierce
5. Filibusters and Ostend
Manifesto
6. Matthew Perry
7. Kansas-Nebraska Act
8. Buchanan
9. Dred Scott Case
10. Bleeding Kansas
11. John Brown
Chapter 17: Reconstruction
1. Freedman’s Bureau
2. Lincoln’s 10% Plan for Reconstruction
3. Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan
4. Radical Republican Reconstruction Plan
5. Black Codes
6. 14th and 15th amendment
7. Sharecropping
8. Carpetbagger
9. Scalawags
10. Slaughterhouse Cases
11. Chinese Exclusion Act
12. Election of 1872
13. Depression of 1873
14. Compromise of 1877