APUSH Unit 5 Study Guide
Civil War and Reconstruction 1848-1877
The following schedule provides due dates for readings, essays and the unit exam. There will be additional readings added and daily
reading quizzes. Please stay on pace with the readings.
Organizing Principles: The Civil War was caused by economic, social, and political sectional differences connected to the
expansion of slavery. The Civil War effectively determined the nature of the Union, the economic direction of the United States, and
political control of the country.
Major Topics: sectionalism, abolition, expansion of slavery, apologists, Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska, 3rd American Party System,
emotionalization of slavery issue, economic development, social development, political development, Civil War [social, economic, political
consequences], amendments, Reconstruction [economic, political, social consequences], Compromise of 1877
Date
Class Topic
Due
10/25
10/28
10/29
10/30
10/31
11/1
11/4
11/5
11/6
11/7
11/8
11/12
11/13
11/14
11/15
The Compromise of 1850
U.S. Territorial Expansion Quiz
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Election of 1860
The Civil War: 1861-2
The Civil War: 1861-2
The Civil War: 1863
The Civil War: 1864-5
The End of the Civil War
Political Reconstruction
A New Birth of Freedom
Redemption
The End of Reconstruction
Review
Unit 5 Exam + FRQ
Boyer p. 398-403
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Boyer p. 403-411
Boyer p. 411-422
Boyer p. 426-431
Boyer p. 431-440
Boyer p. 441-448
Boyer p. 448-456
Boyer p. 456-463
Boyer p 467-476
Boyer p. 481-487
Boyer p. 477-481
Boyer p. 487-497
Unit 5 Key Terms
You will be responsible for knowing these terms on the Unit 5 Exam. I recommend making flashcards as you take
notes throughout the unit and using them to study.
Lewis Cass
Martin Van Buren
Henry Clay
John C. Calhoun
Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act
popular sovereignty
moderate abolitionists
The Dred Scott Case
Roger B. Taney
Charles Sumner
The American Party
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Lecompton Constitution
George McClellan
Stonewall Jackson
Emancipation Proclamation
election of 1856
Fort Sumter
border states
Army of the Potomac
Chancellorsville
draft riots
election of 1864
copperheads
Thaddeus Stevens
scalawags
carpetbaggers
Robert Gould Shaw
Force Acts
15th Amendment
sharecropping
The Whiskey Ring Scandal
Winfield Scott
Franklin Pierce
Zachary Taylor
Harriet Tubman
Fugitive Slave Law
Underground Railroad
free soilers
John C. Fremont
Jefferson Davis
James Buchanan
John Bell
Panic of 1857
Freeport Doctrine
Bleeding Kansas
Robert E. Lee
George Meade
13th Amendment
election of 1860
Bull Run
blockade
Army of Northern Virginia
Fredericksburg
Greenbacks
Andrew Johnson
Union Party
Freedman's Bureau
10% plan
Wade-Davis Bill
Redeemers
Military Reconstruction Act
Tenure of Office Act
crop lien system
the election of 1868
Stephen Douglas
Daniel Webster
Millard Fillmore
Free Soil Party
fire eaters
Ostend Manifesto
radical abolitionists
Abraham Lincoln
John Brown
John C. Breckenridge
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Pottawatomie Creek
Harper's Ferry
Ulysses S. Grant
William Sherman
Anaconda Plan
Republican Party
secession
Antietam
Vicksburg
Peninsular Campaign
Appomattox
National Banking system
John Wilkes Booth
Alexander Stephens
Civil Rights Act
14th Amendment
Ku Klux Klan
Bourbons
radical Republicans
Black Codes
Compromise of 1877
Massachusetts 54th