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APUSH Historical Period Five

The acquisition of significant territory following the Mexican-American War
People from America, Europe, and Asia migrated to the region.
The widely held belief that the United States had a right to expand westward
It generated debates over citizenship.
most Americans believed that Mexicans in the new territories could not assimilate
Growing sectional tensions caused by the Mexican-American War
The effect of regional attitudes on federal policy making
Americans debated how to integrate conquered territories into the United States.
The growth of the abolition movement in the United States
The immediate end to the practice of slavery through legal reform
Efforts at assisting enslaved people in escaping from the South
citizens in the Southern states were deeply divided over secession
Sectional tensions erupted because most Southerners did not support Abraham Lincoln.
Southern voters viewed the presidential election with contempt.
The South relied more on plantation agriculture than the North.
The North was becoming more diverse in its economic activities than the South.
An internal trade in enslaved people spread throughout the South.
Highlighting the enlistment of formerly enslaved people into the Union army
Changing the purpose of the war would strengthen the Union cause.
How Lincoln used executive powers to initiate wartime policy
The conclusion of the Civil War stirred debates over citizenship.
The extension of political opportunities to formerly enslaved people
the ending of Reconstruction.
Local political tactics served to deny African Americans their rights.
With Republicans in retreat, Southern Democrats grew more supportive of Reconstruction policies.
Europeans developed new methods of conducting trade and making profits.
desire for increased power and status
The demands of the encomienda system in the Spanish colonies
The introduction of new diseases
European settlers were able to gain control over Native American lands.
Demand for crops produced in the Americas
Protestant evangelicalism furthered the Anglicization of the colonies and contributed to increased religous revivalism.
The British established increasingly extensive trade networks to sell goods to its colonies.
increasing taxes on goods bought and sold in the colonies
Intensified competition between France and Britain over colonies
The replacement of indigenous labor and indentured servitude by enslaved Africans in New World colonies
The most densely populated regions of North America would eventually become part of New Spain.
The spread of the First Great Awakening from Britain to North America
The British colonies became part of a trans-Atlantic print culture that facilitated the spread of European ideas.
Growing disagreement over the expansion of legal rights in the colonial charter
They stimulated economies across Europe.
The importation of enslaved Africans to the Caribbean
The spread of Spanish influence in the Western Hemisphere
climate and geographic conditions for cash crop agriculture
Relative ability to preserve and adapt African traditions
Columbian Exchange
The publication of the pamphlet Common Sense
independence of the American colonies
Renewed efforts by Great Britain to consolidate imperial control over the colonies
Growing challenges by dissenters to civil authorities
opposed the economic policies that some state legislatures pursued
declare the American colonies to be in open rebellion
A series of popular boycotts, mob protests, and violence against royal officials
an Anti-Federalist
The fear of excessive centralized authority
The strengthening of central government powers
passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts, which were designed to suppress criticism of the government
convince the federal government to create the First Bank of the United States
President Washington’s Farewell Address
Second Great Awakening in the 1830s
Slaveholders became more insistent that maintaining the slave system was essential to protecting the South and its way of life.
The political debates over economic development
The United States should increase domestic manufacturing to promote prosperity.
The use of federal government funding for internal improvements
The formation of new political parties
Women were the moral and spiritual strength of the family.
The slave system gave poor White citizens the feeling of social superiority over free and enslaved African Americans in a culture where African Americans held little power.
Additional restrictions were placed on enslaved and free African Americans.
relationship between the federal government and the states
The acquisition of new territories created disputes over the expansion of slavery.
The Missouri Compromise
Support grew for the Republican Party.
Southern Democrats
The growth of the abolition movement in the United States
The immediate end to the practice of slavery through legal reform
Efforts at assisting enslaved people in escaping from the South
Disagreements over whether to allow slavery in new territories
Ratification of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments
gain continued support for the war effort
The disadvantage of the Confederacy in access to arms, munitions, and other supplies
Republican concerns that African Americans would be denied citizenship rights
The legal ruling that denied African Americans rights of citizenship
The expansion of slavery
trans-Atlantic exchanges
greater independence and diversity of religious thought
the expansion of Protestant evangelism
A common national culture was developing.

causes for the civil war

slavery, state rights, and territorial expansion
kansas-nebraska act
south depended on slavery
election of 1860 - threat to slavery with Lincoln winning

While regional economic differences played a role in increasing sectionalism, ultimately the issue of expansion of slavery into the territories was the most significant cause of the CivIl War. As it created a different between the South and North.

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