Period 5 Overview
Get a broad overview of the key things to know for Period 5.
Topic-Specific Videos
The Compromise of 1850
APUSH grader and test developer Chris Averill gives a full account of the impact and implications of the Compromise of 1850.
Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny catalyzed the growth of the United States by instilling a lust for land in the American populace. How did lust shape American economics, politics, and culture? Find out.
The Wilmot Proviso
Why do we study a failed add-on provision of a bill from the 1850s? Because for the Wilmot Proviso, even failure is a big deal.
William Lloyd Garrison
Radical Abolition started as a small minority but shaped the destiny of the United States. William Lloyd Garrison was it’s loudest voice.
Nativism
How did “Native” Americans respond to the mass immigration of the 19th century? Its hard to tell with the Know-Nothings.
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