PERIOD 5 HYPERDOC (1844-1877)

DUE: _________________
Topic 5.2 Manifest Destiny

Directions: Watch the Khan Academy video Khan Academy- Manifest Destiny

1. What was discovered in California in January 1848?

2. What drew people to the West during this period?

3. What tripled between 1800 and 1860?

4. What is the significance of the Transcontinental Railroad?

5. What did it do to the travel time across the country?

6. What was the Homestead Act?

7. Who was the Homestead Act open to?

8. What were the effects of westward expansion?

Topic 5.3 The Mexican-American War

Directions: Watch Crash Course US History # 17 War and Expansion War & Expansion: Crash Course US History #17

1. Describe who controlled territory in the western part of the continent. How did Americans move into these territories?

2. Explain the arguments over the annexation of Texas. What was the resolution?

3. How did Polk manipulatively provoke war with Mexico?

4. Explain the criticisms of the War with Mexico.

 5. What were the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

6. What is the policy of nativism?

7. What complications arose in the newly annexed territories?

8. What were the goals of the Free Soil Party?

9. In 1850, Henry Clay proposed the Compromise of 1850. What are the 4 parts of the compromise?

a.

b.

c.

d.

Topic 5.5 Sectional Conflict: Regional Differences

Directions: Using your Amsco Chapter 13 notes and the Sectional conflict: Regional differences | Period 5: 1844-1877 | AP US History | K
video to complete the chart below describing the characteristics of each region.

North South

Economy

Population/
Social Differences

Ideological
differences
 Railroads

Factories and
Manufactured
Good

Topic 5.6 Failure of Compromise

Directions: Using the articles linked in the statement below, the Khan Academy link and your notes from your readings, complete the graphic organizer
below.

Compromise Description Results and problems

Kansas-Nebraska
Act

Bleeding Kansas

Dred Scott
Decision

Topic 5.7 Election of 1860 & Secession

Directions: Watch The Election of 1860 & the Road to Disunion: Crash Course US History
and#18
answer the questions below.
1. What was the most controversial aspect of the Compromise of 1850?
 2. What was the concept of popular sovereignty? How did it apply to the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

3. What was the outcome of the Election of 1856?

4. Describe the problems in the Kansas elections and the violence that ensued. What was the outcome of the elections?

5. What is the significance of the Dred Scott Supreme Court Decision?

6. What was the goal and outcome of John Brown’s Raid on Harper Ferry?

7. Describe the outcome of the Election of 1860. When did the Civil War begin?

Topic 5.8 Military Conflict in the Civil War

Directions: Use your notes and the Crash Course Civil War Part 1 and Part 2 videos to answer the questions below.

The Civil War (Part 1)

1. According to John Green, what was the ultimate cause of the Civil War? How does he refute other arguments?

2. Describe the newly formed Confederate government.

3. Explain the advantages the North had over the South in the Civil War.

4. What was one advantage the South had over the North?

5. What motivated Southerners to fight?

6. According to John Green, what were two of the most important turning points in the war?

7. How did the victory at Atlanta impact the presidential election in 1864?
The Civil War (Part 2)

1. Explain the limitations of the Emancipation Proclamation.

2. Why didn’t Lincoln free slaves in loyal border states?

3. How did the potential intervention of Britain on behalf of the South change with the emancipation of slaves?

4. In the Gettysburg Address, how did Lincoln describe the Civil War?

5. Give ONE piece of legislation Lincoln and Congress passed during the war and describe what it did.

Topic 5.9 Government Policies During the Civil War

Directions: Read the article on the Khan Academy- Emancipation Proclamation

1. What was Lincoln’s message in his first inaugural address?

2. What 4 slave states had not seceded from the United States?

3. What battle gave Lincoln the decisive victory and the opportunity to issue the Emancipation Proclamation?

4. How did people receive the message of the proclamation?

5. What opportunity were they given?

6. Who was exempted and why?

7. What expanded the temporary war measure and made it law in 1865?

8. What promise did the Emancipation Proclamation make?

Directions: Watch the video below on the Gettysburg Address The Gettysburg Address partto
2 answer the questions that follow.
1. When is the Gettysburg address given?

2. What are the founding principles of our country?

3. What are the American forces fighting for?

4. What is Lincoln reminding everyone of?

5. What is the real power of the Gettysburg Address?

Topic 5.10 Reconstruction

Directions: Watch the Crash Course US History Reconstruction and 1876: Crash Course US Historyand
#22use your textbook notes and
readings to answer the questions below and complete the graphic organizer.
1. Explain what the Freedmen’s Bureau did to change the lives of former slaves in the 1860s

2. Describe the system of sharecropping that developed in the United States. Why was it problematic for both poor whites and newly
freed black farmers?

3. How did the Civil Rights Bill of 1866 passed by Radical Republicans redefine the concept of citizenship?

4. What did President Andrew Johnson do to the Civil Rights Bill? How did Congress respond?

5. What was the 14th Amendment?

6. Analyze the effects of the Reconstruction Act of 1867.

7. Describe the effects of the 15th Amendment

8. How did the Federal Government come to be seen in terms of their role in protecting Americans’ freedoms?
 9. Why did the period of Reconstruction end?

10. Identify and explain failures/shortcomings of the Period of Reconstruction.

Lincoln’s 10% Plan Johnson’s Plan Radical Reconstruction

Policy on
Southern States
Readmission to
the Union

Treatment of
African
Americans

Treatment of
the South

1. How were the three plans similar?

2. How were the three plans different?

3. Which plan would you have chosen if you lived during this time period and WHY?

Topic 5.11 Failure of Reconstruction

Directions: Watch the video and answer the questions.

Failure of Reconstruction | AP US History | Khan Academy

1. In terms of freedom, what were things like after Reconstruction?

 2. What were Black Codes?

3. Who could vote and participate in democracy in the years before the Civil War?

4. How does that change after Reconstruction?

5. What limits were placed on the expansion of democracy?

6. What voter suppression tactics were put in place?

7. How did the Reconstruction Amendments change lives for African Americans?

8. What did scalawags and carpetbaggers lay the foundation for?

Skill Practice

Document 1: Senator Robert J. Walker, “The Texas Question,” United States Magazine and Democratic Review, 1844
“That Texas is to be, sooner or later, included in the Union, we long have… regarded as an event already indelibly inscribed in the book of
future fate and necessity. And as for what may be termed the antislavery objection, this has no greater force than the other. The question
of slavery is not a federal or national but a local question… It would not, in all probability, be difficult to obtain the consent of Mexico, or
such recognition by her of the independence of Texas.”

Directions: Write 2-3 DETAILED sentences in which you summarize the document AND incorporate one of the following
skills: historical context, author’s POV, purpose, or audience. (Circle which skill you are completing)
Document 2: Roger B. Taney, Dred Scott v. Sandford, 1857
“And upon full and careful consideration… Dred Scott was not a citizen of Missouri within the meaning of the Constitution of the United
States and not entitled as such to sue in its courts…

“Upon these considerations it is the opinion of the court that the act of Congress which prohibited a citizen from holding and owning
property of this kind in the territory of the United States north of the line therein mentioned is not warranted by the Constitution and is
therefore void…

“That is now firmly settled by the decisions of the highest court in the state that Scott and his family, upon their return, were not free, but
were, by the laws of Missouri, the property of the defendant; and that the Circuit Court of the United States has no jurisdiction when by the
laws of the state, the plaintiff was a slave and not a citizen.”

Directions: Write 2-3 DETAILED sentences in which you summarize the document AND incorporate one of the following
skills: historical context, author’s POV, purpose, or audience. (Circle which skill you are completing)

Document 3: Henry Clay, Resolution on the Compromise of 1850, 1850

“It being desirable for the peace, concord, and harmony of the Union of these states to settle and adjust amicably all existing questions of
controversy between them arising out of the institution of slavery upon a fair, equitable, and just basis…

“We are told now… that the Union is threatened with subversion and destruction… If the Union is to be dissolved for any existing causes, it
will be dissolved because slavery is interdicted or not allowed to be introduced into the ceded territories, because slavery is threatened to
be abolished in the District of Columbia, and because fugitive slaves are not returned… to their masters…

“I am for staying within the Union and fighting for my rights.”

Directions: Write 2-3 DETAILED sentences in which you summarize the document AND incorporate one of the following
skills: historical context, author’s POV, purpose, or audience. (Circle which skill you are completing)
Document 4: Frederick Douglass, Speech, September 24, 1883
“Though we have had war, reconstruction, and abolition as a nation, we still linger in the shadow and blight of an extinct institution. Though
the colored man is no longer subject to be bought and sold, he is still surrounded by an adverse sentiment… In his downward course he
meets no resistance, but his course upward is resented and resisted at every step of his progress…

“If liberty, with us, is yet but a name, our citizenship is but a sham, and our suffrage thus far only a cruel mockery, we may yet
congratulate ourselves upon the fact that the laws and institutions of the country are sound, just, and liberal. There is hope… But until this
nation shall make its practice accord with its Constitution and righteous laws, it will not do to reproach the colored people of this country.”

Directions: Write 2-3 DETAILED sentences in which you summarize the document AND incorporate one of the following
skills: historical context, author’s POV, purpose, or audience. (Circle which skill you are completing)
Document 5: Joining of the rails at Promontory Point,
photograph by Andrew J. Russell, May 10, 1869 (Gilder
Lehrman Collection)

Directions: Write 2-3 DETAILED sentences in which you summarize the document AND incorporate one of the following
skills: historical context, author’s POV, purpose, or audience. (Circle which skill you are completing)