Unit 5: Period 5: 1844–1877

AP United States History

Timeline of key events

The big themes

The road to war

The Civil War (1861-1865)

Emancipation

Reconstruction (1865-1877)

Key figures

Vocabulary

Unit 5 topics

Unit 5 overview 5.1Contextualizing Period 5 5.10Reconstruction 5.11Failure of Reconstruction 5.12Comparison in Period 5 5.13Causation in Period 5 5.2Manifest Destiny 5.3The Mexican-American War 5.4The Compromise of 1850 5.5Sectional Conflict: Regional Differences 5.6Failure of Compromise 5.7Election of 1860 and Secession 5.8Military Conflict in the Civil War 5.9Government Policies During the Civil War

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