Key Takeaways
Lesson Description
Key Takeaways
• Westward expansion intensified sectional conflict over slavery.
• Manifest Destiny encouraged territorial expansion.
• Political compromises temporarily delayed the Civil War but failed to resolve sectional tensions.
• The Civil War preserved the Union and ended slavery.
• Reconstruction attempted to rebuild the South and expand civil rights but faced significant resistance.
Must Know Concepts
Manifest Destiny
Sectionalism
Civil War
Reconstruction
Emancipation
Must Know Vocabulary
Manifest Destiny
Texas Annexation
Mexican-American War
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Popular Sovereignty
Bleeding Kansas
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Election of 1860
Emancipation Proclamation
Gettysburg Address
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
Freedmen's Bureau
Black Codes
Sharecropping
Compromise of 1877
Presidents You Must Know
James K. Polk
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
Ulysses S. Grant
AP Exam Focus
• Explain the causes of the Civil War.
• Compare Union and Confederate strategies.
• Evaluate the successes and failures of Reconstruction.