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U.S. History 1492-1877: The Civil War

Today's lesson: The Civil War. A war may be civil, but it's never pretty. Well, aside from the Pretty Pink Fairy Wars of '93...but no one seems to want to talk to us about those.


Continued Debate over Rights and Citizenship Videos 4 videos

AP U.S. History Exam 2.22
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AP U.S. History Exam 2.22. How did many immigrants seek refuge from the sentiments expressed in the image?

AP U.S. History 2.5 Period 5: 1848-1877
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AP U.S. History 2.5 Period 5: 1848-1877. In general, how did Southerners react to the wave of Northerners who migrated to the South after the Civil...

AP U.S. History Exam 2.21
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AP U.S. History Exam 2.21. Which of the following groups would most likely support the idea expressed in the image?

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Enthusiasm for Expansion Videos 6 videos

AP U.S. History Exam 2.22
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AP U.S. History Exam 2.22. How did many immigrants seek refuge from the sentiments expressed in the image?

AP U.S. History 1.1 Period 5: 1848-1877
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AP U.S. History 1.1 Period 5: 1848-1877. Which of the following groups would be most likely to support the idea of Manifest Destiny?

AP U.S. History Exam 1.22
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AP U.S. History Exam 1.22. Over time, what had the biggest impact on the environmental transformation and division of the larger Western territorie...

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Reconstruction Videos 13 videos

AP U.S. History Exam 1.26
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AP U.S. History Exam 1.26. Which group divided over support for the changes highlighted in this image?

AP U.S. History 2.5 Period 5: 1848-1877
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AP U.S. History 2.5 Period 5: 1848-1877. In general, how did Southerners react to the wave of Northerners who migrated to the South after the Civil...

AP U.S. History 4.3 Period 5: 1848-1877
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AP U.S. History 4.3 Period 5: 1848-1877. The increased awareness of the 14th and 15th Amendments during the 1860s is most similar to which of the f...

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Responses to Slavery Videos 7 videos

AP U.S. History Exam 2.24
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AP U.S. History Exam 2.24. The goal of the author in writing the excerpt was to...what?

AP U.S. History Exam 1.23
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AP U.S. History Exam 1.23. Which piece of legislation was the image created in response to?

AP U.S. History 2.1 Period 5: 1848-1877
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AP U.S. History 2.1 Period 5: 1848-1877. In general, racial stereotyping like the minstrel show advertised above affected the national debate about...

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Southern Secession Videos 7 videos

AP U.S. History Exam 2.26
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AP U.S. History Exam 2.26. This speech reinforced a shift in the focus of the war that Lincoln established by...what?

AP U.S. History 1.4 Period 5: 1848-1877
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AP U.S. History 1.4 Period 5: 1848-1877. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 marked what legislative change in the western territories?

AP U.S. History 3.3 Period 5: 1848-1877
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AP U.S. History 3.3 Period 5: 1848-1877. One effect of the Compromise of 1850 was...what?

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The Civil War Videos 5 videos

AP U.S. History Exam 2.26
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AP U.S. History Exam 2.26. This speech reinforced a shift in the focus of the war that Lincoln established by...what?

AP U.S. History 3.4 Period 5: 1848-1877
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AP U.S. History 3.4 Period 5: 1848-1877. According to the excerpt, the Emancipation Proclamation did what?

AP U.S. History Exam 2.25
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AP U.S. History Exam 2.25. In writing the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln was still working to win over Northern voters who believed that...what?

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