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AP U.S. History / Unit 5

Unit 5 · 10–17%

Period 5: 1844–1877

Sectional crisis, Civil War, and Reconstruction.

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Topics

  • Expansion and sectional conflict
  • Civil War
  • Emancipation
  • Reconstruction

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Original practice

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1 of 11844–1877 · medium · short answer

Identify one way Reconstruction changed African American political participation in the South, and explain one limit on that change by the late 1870s.

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Take your time—this is practice, not a test.

Review checklist

  1. 01Name one political failure that made compromise harder.
  2. 02Explain emancipation as a process, not a single day.
  3. 03Give one gain and one reversal of Reconstruction.

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    AP U.S. History course page

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    U.S. History (Open Textbook Library)

    Open U.S. history textbook for chronology and institutions background.

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