period 5 (1844-1877)

Flashcards covering key vocabulary and concepts from the APUSH exam review video on US Expansion, Civil War, and Reconstruction.

Manifest Destiny (1840s)

Belief in U.S. Expansion, based on racial and cultural superiority. President: James K. Polk.

Wilmot Proviso (1846)

Proposed that slavery be prohibited in territory acquired from Mexico; it never passed. President: James K. Polk.

Nativism (Mid-19th Century)

Fear and discrimination against foreigners.

Know-Nothing Party (1850s)

Political party established to limit Catholic influence and keep them from holding office.

Homestead Act (1862)

Provided 160 acres of cheap land in the West if settlers resided there for 5 years. President: Abraham Lincoln.

The Liberator (1831-1865)

William Lloyd Garrison's abolitionist newspaper.

Popular Sovereignty (Mid-19th Century)

The concept that residents of a territory should decide whether to permit slavery.

Emancipation Proclamation (1863)

Lincoln's declaration that freed slaves in Confederate-held territory. President: Abraham Lincoln.

Anaconda Plan (1861-1865)

Union strategy to blockade the South. President: Abraham Lincoln.

Sharecropping (Post-Civil War Era)

System where former slaves worked land owned by others in return for a share of the crops, perpetuating economic dependence.

Jim Crow Laws (Late 19th and 20th Centuries)

State and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States.

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

Supreme Court case that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the 'separate but equal' doctrine. President: Grover Cleveland.

13th Amendment (1865)

Abolished slavery in the United States. President: Andrew Johnson.

14th Amendment (1868)

Granted citizenship and equal protection of the laws to all persons born or naturalized in the U.S. President: Andrew Johnson.

15th Amendment (1870)

Prohibited the denial of the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude. President: Ulysses S. Grant.

When was The Compromise of 1850 admitted California to the Union. Part of this compromise Imposed the Fugitive Slave Law on northerners.

1850

When did Harrier Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom's Cabin

1852

When did The Dred Scott decision ruled that slaves were not considered citizens and did not have the right to sue in federal courts.

1857

When was Abraham Lincoln elected president of the United States. Almost immediately, South Carolina seceded from the Union.

1860

When President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation to free the slaves in the states currently in rebellion against the Union

1863

When the Congress gained greater control ever the South through the Reconstruction Acts of 1867

1867

When was it that The Compromise of 1877 withdrew federal troops from the South in exchange for electing a Democratic leader to the presidents Cabinet.

1877

Reconstruction

The period after the civil war during which Norther potitical leaders imposed strict regulations and governance on the South so that the South could rejoin the Union. goal was to "reconstruct," or "rebuild," the Union that had been broken by the war. The initial goal of Reconstruction was to guarantee rights for African-Americans

Kansas-Nebraska act

a law that organized the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, allowing residents to decide whether to permit slavery through popular sovereignty. This act repealed the Missouri Compromise

Fugitive salve act of 1850

mandated the return of runaway slaves to their owners, regardless of whether they had fled to free states

The surrender of Appomattox

General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to General Ulysses S. Grant in the parlor of the Wilmer McLean home in Appomattox Court House, Virginia. This event effectively ended the Civil War in Virginia and marked the beginning of the end for the Confederacy