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Period 5: 1844 to 1877 Videos
Today's lesson: The Civil War. A war may be civil, but it's never pretty. Well, aside from the Pretty Pink Fairy Wars of '93...but no one seems to want to talk to us about those.
Continued Debate over Rights and Citizenship Videos 4 videos
AP U.S. History Exam 2.22. How did many immigrants seek refuge from the sentiments expressed in the image?
AP U.S. History 2.5 Period 5: 1848-1877. In general, how did Southerners react to the wave of Northerners who migrated to the South after the Civil...
AP U.S. History Exam 2.21. Which of the following groups would most likely support the idea expressed in the image?
Enthusiasm for Expansion Videos 6 videos
AP U.S. History Exam 1.22. Over time, what had the biggest impact on the environmental transformation and division of the larger Western territorie...
AP U.S. History Exam 2.22. How did many immigrants seek refuge from the sentiments expressed in the image?
AP U.S. History: Religion and Reform in Antebellum America Drill 1, Problem 2. How did the creation of Kansas affect the country's political l...
Reconstruction Videos 13 videos
AP U.S. History Diagnostic 12. How did the Reconstruction Acts open up political opportunities for former slaves?
AP U.S. History Diagnostic 18. What shift in the United States economy is represented by the image?
AP U.S. History Exam 1.25. What change to the Constitution was celebrated in the creation of the image?
Responses to Slavery Videos 7 videos
Which major contrasts does the excerpt highlight? Bonus points if you saluted and said "major contrast". Did you do it? Good, you've got the...gene...
AP U.S. History Exam 2.24. The goal of the author in writing the excerpt was to...what?
AP U.S. History Exam 1.21. By the time of the above map's creation in 1856, the political issue that dominated national conversation was...what?
Southern Secession Videos 7 videos
AP U.S. History 1.4 Period 5: 1848-1877. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 marked what legislative change in the western territories?
AP U.S. History 3.3 Period 5: 1848-1877. One effect of the Compromise of 1850 was...what?
AP U.S. History Diagnostic 10. What led to the splintering of the political parties shown in the image?
The Civil War Videos 5 videos
AP U.S. History Exam 2.26. This speech reinforced a shift in the focus of the war that Lincoln established by...what?
AP U.S. History 3.5 Period 5: 1848-1877. The Emancipation Proclamation was a continuance of which of the following developments?
AP U.S. History Exam 2.25. In writing the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln was still working to win over Northern voters who believed that...what?