AP United States History
Period 5: 1844-1877
Civil War and Reconstruction
Chapter 11: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South
Chapter 13: The Impending Crisis
Chapter 14: The Civil War
Chapter 15: Reconstruction and the New South
Part I: Unit Terms
Define the term and explain their significance.
AP United States History
Period 5: 1844-1877
Civil War and Reconstruction
1. American Colonization Society
2. Gag Rule
3. William Lloyd Garrison
4. The Liberator
5. American Antislavery Society
6. Angelina and Sarah Grimke
7. Nat Turner’s Revolt
8. Log Cabin Campaign
9. Webster-Ashburton Treaty
10. Underground Railroad
11. Stephen Austin
12. General Santa Anna
13. Alamo and Goliad
14. Battle of San Jacinto
15. Sam Houston
16. Manifest Destiny
17. Oregon Boundary Dispute
18. James K. Polk
19. Henry Clay
20. Annexation of Texas
21. Oregon Treaty 1846
22. Wilmot Proviso
23. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
24. Zachary Taylor
25. Gold Rush
26. John C. Calhoun
27. Stephen A. Douglas
28. Popular sovereignty
29. Compromise of 1850
30. Fugitive Slave Act
31. Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom’s Cabin
32. Franklin Pierce
33. Gadsden Purchase
34. Ostend Manifesto
35. Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan
36. Wade-Davis Bill
37. Johnson’s Plan
38. 13th, 14th, & 15th Amendments
39. Kansas-Nebraska Act
40. Republican Party
41. Know-Nothing Party
42. Lecompton Constitution
43. Bleeding Kansas
44. John Brown
45. Caning of Charles Sumner
46. James Buchanan
47. John C. Fremont
48. Dred Scott Decision
49. Lincoln
50. Lincoln-Douglas Debates
51. Freeport Doctrine
52. Harpers Ferry
53. Election of 1860
54. John C. Breckinridge
55. Crittenden Compromise
56. Fort Sumter
57. Jefferson Davis
58. Thaddeus Stevens
59. Reconstruction Act of 1867
60. Tenure of Office Act
61. Anaconda Plan
62. First Bull Run (Manassas)
63. Gen. McClellan
64. Gen. Robert E. Lee
65. Gen. Stonewall Jackson
66. Monitor and Merrimac
67. Antietam
68. Gen. Grant
69. Conscription Act 1862
70. Enrollment Act 1863
71. NYC Draft Riots
72. Dorothea Dix
73. Clara Barton
74. Homestead Act of 1862
75. Emancipation Proclamation
76. Gettysburg
77. Vicksburg
78. Gen. Sherman
79. “March to the Sea”
80. Copperheads or Peace Democrats
81. Election of 1864
82. Appomattox
83. Ku Klux Klan
84. Whiskey Ring
85. Black Codes
86. Freedman’s Bureau
87. Civil Rights Act of 1866
88. Radical Republicans
89. Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
90. President Grant
91. Carpetbaggers
92. Scalawags
93. Sharecropping and crop lien system
94. Credit Mobilier
95. Civil Rights Act of 1875
96. Election of 1876
97. Rutherford B. Hayes
AP United States History
Period 5: 1844-1877
Civil War and Reconstruction
Part II: Reading Questions
1. Analyze the impact of “King Cotton” (particularly, the cultivation of short-staple cotton) on the development of political, economic, and social systems in the South.
2. Explain the factors that led to an alliance between poor whites and planters in the American South.
3. Compare and contrast gender roles in white and in slave society.
4. Compare and contrast the agricultural focus of each of the regions of the United States.
5. Explain why Southerners came to defend slavery as a positive good rather than a necessary evil.
6. Analyze the ways in which slave society and culture both resisted an accommodated the institution.
7. Analyze the degree to which development of the factory system further isolated the South and set the stage for increased sectional tension.
8. Analyze the specific attempts at compromise between the North and the South during the 1850s and their relative success.
9. Explain the factors that intensified section conflict during the 1850s.
10. Explain the positive and negative benefits of territorial expansion during the 1840s and 1850s.
11. Compare and contrast the views of abolitionists and apologists.
12. Explain the factors that led to the increasingly emotional debate over the extension of slavery into the territories.
13. Evaluate the legitimacy of the concept of Manifest Destiny and the means by which the United States acquired territory during the period.
14. Analyze the impact of the election of 1860 on the possibility of compromise on the issue of slavery.
15. Compare the relative advantages of the North and the South in the Civil War.
16. Analyze the reasons for secession and why attempts at compromise failed.
17. Evaluate the degree of the reason for the suppression of Constitutional rights during the Civil War.
18. In what ways and to what degree did the Civil War alter the role of both Northern and Southern women?
19. Evaluate the military strategy of both the North and the South during the course of the war.
20. Analyze the impact of the Civil War on Northern and Southern society economically and politically.
21. Compare and contrast congressional and presidential Reconstruction plans.
22. Analyze the degree of change brought to the American South as a result of Reconstruction.
23. Analyze the economic, political, and social methods used to create and maintain second-class citizenship for African Americans.
24. What caused Southern Democrats to regain power, replacing Republican governments with Redeemer governments?
25. Analyze the degree to which the New South was really new.
26. To what degree and in what ways was the Compromise of 1877 justified?
Questions To review the unit and prepare for the unit test, answer the following questions.
Themes / Concept QuestionsBeliefs, Ideas, and Cultures / Compare and contrast gender roles in white and slave society in the South. Also, explain the transformation of the view of the institution of slavery as a “necessary evil” to a “positive good” in the minds of white Southerners.
America in the World / N/A
Geography and Environment / Explain the impact of territorial acquisition in intensifying sectional conflict.
Peopling / Explain how the Civil War and Reconstruction encouraged migration.
Identity / Analyze the ways in which American concepts of identity were changed during and after the Civil War and Reconstruction, particularly for African Americans.
Politics and Power / Explain how both the North and the South felt threatened by the other side’s ability to control the federal government and legislate against the interests of the region.
Economics—Work, Exchange, and Technology / Describe how the Civil War affected the economies of both the North and the South. Analyze how the Civil War altered existing labor systems. Discuss the role the differences in regional economic development played in the causes and the outcomes of the war.