VOCABULARY
DIRECTIONS FOR QUIZZES:
a. Definitions are required on all quizzes and should be precise and concise.
b. Definitions are not random descriptions. Each APUSH definition should denote the following
for the term: the Who, What, Where, When, Why and Historical Significance. Historical
Significance is the most important part as it displays the analysis in your writing. These are
your “because” statements. Ex. John Smith was historically significant because…
c. The Vocabulary below is considered important for the Unit.
Unit 5 Vocabulary
(Vocabulary covers Chapters 12-15 of the AMSCO book.)
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Manifest Destiny
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo/John Slidell
Wilmot Proviso
Popular sovereignty
Free Soil Party
Compromise of 1850
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
John Brown
“Bleeding Kansas”
Freeport Doctrine
Dred Scott v. Sandford/Roger Taney
Anaconda Plan
Antietam
Emancipation Proclamation
13th Amendment
Gettysburg
Scalawag/Carpetbagger
Freedmen’s Bureau
Wade-Davis Bill
Black codes
sharecropping
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
Compromise of 1877