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APUSH Study Guide
Unit 4 Exam: Sectionalism and Civil War
CHAPTER 16: Slavery and the South
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Antebellum North – Social and Economic characteristics:
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Antebellum South – Social and Economic characteristics:
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Social Hierarchy
o Most white slave-owning families owned how many slaves? 
o What % of the white southern population owned NO slaves 
o Slave culture:
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Free Black population (restriction of rights, characteristics, etc)
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Nat Turner 
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Abolitionists: Moderate vs. Extreme
o William Lloyd Garrison
o Frederick Douglass
o Harriet Tubman 
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American Colonization Society 
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Southern justifications of slavery
CHAPTER 17: Manifest Destiny & Mexican War
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Manifest Destiny (what groups supported it, which groups didn’t)
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Annexation of Texas (significance) -
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Oregon Territory (what, significance) -
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Mexican-American War
o Causes:
o Effects:
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Wilmot Proviso -
CHAPTER 18 – Road to Civil War Part I (1850-1854)
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Political partys and their characteristics:
o Whigs o Democrats o Free-soilers -
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California Gold Rush (effects):
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Compromise of 1850 (provisions, controversy)
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Popular Sovereignty -
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Election of 1852 -
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Gadsden Purchase -
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“The Great Nullifier”, “The Little Giant”, “The Great Compromiser”
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
o Causes o Effects -
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Foreign Policy Issues: What foreign nations did the US become involved in?
o Ostend Manifesto -
CHAPTER 19: Road to Civil War Part II (late 1855-1860)
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin (effect) –
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Panic of 1857 (cause/effect) –
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Bleeding Kansas (cause/effect) –
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Birth of the Republican Party / Platform:
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Dred-Scott Case (decision/effect) –
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates –
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John Brown –
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Election of 1860 –
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Crittenden Amendment –
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Secession –
CHAPTER 20 AND 21: The Civil War
 African Americans in the Civil War:
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The Draft in the N & S:
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Morrill Land Grant Act –
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Pacific Railway Act –
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France and Britain during the Civil War:
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Emancipation Proclamation: (what, effect):
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What battle was the turning point of the war? ________________
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Copperheads –
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Election of 1864 –
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Failure of King Cotton:
CHAPTER 22: Reconstruction
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Lincoln’s Plan for Reconstruction:
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Radical Republicans vs. Moderate Republicans:
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Military Reconstruction:
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13th Amendment –
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14th Amendment –
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15th Amendment – (conflict here)
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Carpetbaggers –
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Impeachment of Andrew Johnson –
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Economy of the South –
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Freedman’s Bureau –
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Sharecropping –
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Black Codes –
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Seward’s Folly
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KKK –
PAST Information:
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Missouri Compromise -
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Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions -
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Proclamation of 1763 -
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Andrew Jackson -
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Deism -