AP Success - AP US History: Terms and Concepts from Period 5 (1844-1877)

For each of the following terms, briefly define the term and describe its significance within historical context.

Question 1

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13th Amendment

Question 2

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14th Amendment

Question 3

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15th Amendment

Question 4

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American First Transcontinental Railroad

Question 5

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Battle of Gettysburg

Question 6

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Civil War

Question 7

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Compromise of 1850

Question 8

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Emancipation Proclamation

Question 9

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Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

Question 10

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Gettysburg Address

Question 11

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Homestead Act

Question 12

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Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

Question 13

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Jim Crow Laws

Question 14

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 15

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Reconstruction

Question 16

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Reconstruction Amendments

Question 17

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Secession of Southern States

Question 18

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Sharecropping

Question 19

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Sherman's March to the Sea

Question 20

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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

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