apush period 5

  1. Period 5 Exam Study Guide

  3. Exam Format: 

  4. 15 MCQ (10 with Stimuli) - 2 points each for a total of 20 points

  5. 1 SAQ’s - 3 separate parts, each part will be worth 10 points for a total of 30 points

  6. Total points for exam=50

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  10. PossibleTopics: 

  12. Covering chapters 16-22

  13. Nat Turner's Rebellion

    1. 1831, rebellion in which nat turner led a group of slaves through virginia in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow and kill planter families. 

    2. Lasting impact on white - fear of their own nat turner, tightening of grip on slavery 

  14. The Liberator

    1. The first anti slavery newspaper. Was created by Garrison in Boston. With this  newspaper he was able to openly express his beliefs but this was one of the first movements to the civil war. 

  15. American Anti Slavery Society

    1. Abolitionist society founded by William Garrison who advocated the immediate abolition of slavery. By 1838 the organization had more than 250K members across 1.35K chapters

  16. Mason Dixon Line

    1. A boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland. It designated the boundary dividing the slave states from the free states. Anti slavery societies were created in the north \ and in 1836 the voice of white southern abolitionism was silenced

  17. Gag Resolution

    1. Strict rule passed by prosouthern congressmen in 1836 to prohibit all discussion of slavery in the House of representatives

  18. Popular Sovereignty

    1. State abke to choose based on popular vote whether free or slave state

  19. Free Soil Party

    1. 1848-1852

    2. A political party with the main purpose of stopping the expansion of slavery in western territories arguing free men on free soil. Resentful at polks actions. 

  20. Underground Railroad

    1. A secret network of antislavery northerners who illegally helped fugitive slaves escape to free states or Canada during the period before the Civil war

  21. Compromise of 1850

    1. CA added as a free state

    2. Slave trade abolished in DC

    3. Popular sovereighty in new mexican territories

    4. More strict fugitive slave act

    5. Texas paid 10 million to settle border dispute

  22. Fugitive Slave Law

    1. Slaves unable to get help from court allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slaveyr was illegal and required return to slaveholders - part of 1850 compromise

  23. Kansas Nebraska Act

    1. Law that allowed for popular sovereignty by stephen douglas, in the kansas and nebraska territories

  24. Confederate States of America

    1. Collection of 11 southern states that seceded from the US from 1860 to 1861 primarily over issues of slavery and state rights

  25. Uncle Tom’s Cabin

  26. Bleeding Kansas

    1. Period referring to a violent conflict between 1854 and 1859 in the kansas territory as pro slavery and anti slavery factions clashed over whether kansas should enter the Union as a gree or slave state

  27. Dred Scott v Stanford

    1. 1859 supreme court case in which a slave dred scott tried to sue for his freedom oon the grounds that his master moved him to a free territory. The judge ruled against scott and ruled that african americans cannot be citizens of the US.

  28. Fort Sumter

    1. South carolina location where the confederate forces fired the first shots of the civil war in apirl of 1861 after union forces attempted to provision the fort

    2. South ignited the fighting of the civil war provoking north to assemble army

    3. Border states favor north

  29. Homestead Act

    1. 1862 act that gace 160 acres of free western land to any applicant who occupied and improved the property. Policy led to rapid development of the american west after the civil war, facing arid conditions in the west. However many homesteaders found themselves unable to live on their land. 

  30. Bull Run

    1. Place where one of the first battles of the civil war took place in 1861. 

    2. Due to confederate army defeating the Union, the Union was provoked and civil war raged on

  31. Battle of Atietam

    1. 1862 first major battle to take place on northern soil. Bloodiest single day battle in american history 23K casualties. win of North..Lincoln afterward announced the Emancipation Proclamation

  32. Emancipation Proclamation

    1. Declared that slavery would be legally abolished in all states that remained out of the union on january 1 1863

  33. Reconstruction Amendments

    1. 13th 14th and 15th adopted 

    2. 13th - abolished slavery

    3. 14th - citizenship to all people born in the US

    4. 15th - gave Black americans the right to vote

  34. Gettysburg (Battle of and Speech)

    1. Famous battle beacuse of large size high cost in lives, location in a northern state and 

    2. Gettysburg address - dedication of a national cemetery at the gettysburg gattle field 

  35. 10 Percent Reconstruction plan

    1. Lincolns plan on bringing states back into the Union - at least 10 percent of the population has to swar oath of loyalty 

  36. Black Codes

    1. Group of restrictions placed upon newly freed african americans by southern state legislatures

  37. Wade-Davis Bill

    1. 1864 bill proposed by radical republican senators Wade and Henry Davis that declared the reconstruction of the south was legislative not executive matter = to weaken power of president lincoln. 

  38. Civil Rights Bill

    1. 1964 sought to undo damage of Jim Crow policies outlawing segregation in public spaces and employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, or national origin - commonly referred to as - protected classes - in legal debates

  39. Reconstruction Act

    1. 1867 organized the south into 5 military districts, and the states had to have a military leader from the north. Also had to get rid of black codes and ratify the 14th amendment.