Key Terms of APUSH Period 5 Explored

The video covers key terms from AP US History Period 5, focusing on the Antebellum period, Manifest Destiny, sectional tensions, California's statehood, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the Dred Scott decision, political realignment, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. It highlights the causes and consequences of these events, including the rise of the Republican Party, Southern secession, and the differences between the Union and Confederacy. The video also discusses the impact of Reconstruction, the role of Radical Republicans, and the sharecropping system.

What does 'antebellum' refer to in the context of AP US History?

• The period before the Civil War

• The period of Reconstruction

• The period after the Civil War

• The period during the Civil War

What was the main belief behind Manifest Destiny?

• The abolition of slavery

• The inevitability of civil war

• The justified expansion of the US across North America

• The establishment of a national bank

What was the significance of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• It established the Republican Party

• It ended the Civil War

• It allowed for popular sovereignty to decide on slavery

• It was a compromise to keep California as a free state

Who was Dred Scott and what was the Supreme Court's decision regarding his case?

• A congressman who fought for slaves' rights

• A slave whose plea for freedom was denied

• A slave who was granted freedom by the court

• A free black man whose freedom was upheld

What was the main goal of the Republican Party when it was established?

• To expand slavery into new territories

• To limit the expansion of slavery and promote economic reforms

• To support the rights of immigrant populations

• To reinstate the Missouri Compromise

What strategy did the Union employ to win the Civil War?

• The Missouri Compromise

• The Anaconda Plan

• The Emancipation Proclamation

• The Gadsden Purchase

What was the purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau during Reconstruction?

• To assist former slaves in adapting to freedom

• To enforce the Fugitive Slave Act

• To promote sharecropping agreements

• To segregate the South

What was the sharecropping system?

• A military strategy during the Civil War

• A method for distributing land to former slaves

• A system where poor farmers rented land and paid with a share of the crops

• A federal program to educate former slaves

What ended the Reconstruction era?

• The establishment of the Freedmen's Bureau

• The start of the Civil War

• The election of Rutherford B. Hayes and the Compromise of 1877

• The Emancipation Proclamation

What were Jim Crow laws?

• Laws that abolished slavery in all states

• Laws that enforced racial segregation and limited rights of blacks

• Laws that provided equal rights to blacks and whites

• Laws that expanded voting rights