Period 5 APUSH: PowerPoints & Lectures // AP U.S. History

Want to take your PowerPoint / Google Slides Presentations and APUSH Lectures to the next level? 10 PowerPoints and corresponding organized Lecture Outlines aligned to 2019 APUSH / AP U.S. History Standards and Topics 5.2 - 5.11!

NEW: Google Slides Versions for ALL PowerPoints included as well!

This PowerPoint Deck contains lecture slides and lecture notes that align directly with AP US History Period 5, APUSH Topics 5.2 - 5.11 (1844-1877). I've worked to make this PowerPoint informative, engaging, eye-popping, and fun!

This package comes with 10 clearly labeled PowerPoint decks with a corresponding easy-to-follow and thoroughly researched lecture outline for each topic (18 pages total).

This PowerPoint deck is comprised of 10 separate lectures and powerpoints, each sold separately as well:

• Topic 5.2 - Manifest Destiny (55 slides)
• Topic 5.3 - Mexican-American War (34 slides)
• Topic 5.4 - Compromise of 1850 (35 slides)
• Topic 5.5 - Sectional Conflict: Regional Differences (42 slides)
• Topic 5.6 - Failure of Compromise (40 slides)
• Topic 5.7 - Election of 1860 & Secession (40 slides)
• Topic 5.8 - Civil War: Military Conflict (69 slides)
• Topic 5.9 - Civil War: Government Policies (41 slides)
• Topic 5.10 - Reconstruction (90 slides)
• Topic 5.11 - Failure of Reconstruction (56 slides)

Includes:

1. 10 separate PowerPoint decks. One for each topic.
2. Lecture Outline: An 18-page organized lecture outline with added detail, approximately 1 to 2 pages per APUSH topic

Key Content covered is listed below. Note: I've erred on the side of detail in the PPTs and lectures, but the information is presented and organized in such a manner that it can be removed (or added!) as you see fit!

5.2 Key Content Covered:

• Immigration: Irish, Germans
• Nativism
• Know-Nothing Party
• Abolitionist Movement: William Lloyd Garrison, John Brown
• Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Underground Railroad
• Harriet Tubman
• Free Soil Movement
• Defense of Slavery
• Slavery as a "positive good"

5.3 Key Content Covered:

• Historical Context: Election of 1844
• Republic of Texas
• Causes: Manifest Destiny, Boundary Dispute
• Key Events of the War: Zachary Taylor, Rio Grande, Nueces River, James K. Polk, Polk's War
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• Consequences of War: Territorial Gain, Slavery Question, Conflict with Native Americans and Mexicans

5.4 Key Content Covered:

• The Wilmot Proviso
• Popular Sovereignty
• Election of 1848 and Free-Soil Party
• California & the Compromise of 1850
• Gold Rush
• Henry Clay, Millard Fillmore, Zachary Taylor, Stephen Douglas

5.5 Key Content Covered:

• Immigration: Irish, Germans
• Nativism
• Know-Nothing Party
• Abolitionist Movement: William Lloyd Garrison, John Brown
• Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Underground Railroad
• Harriet Tubman
• Free Soil Movement
• Defense of Slavery
• Slavery as a "positive good"

5.6 Key Content Covered:

• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Bleeding Kansas
• John Brown
• Dred Scott
• Rise of the Republican Party

5.7 Key Content Covered:

• Rise of Abraham Lincoln
• Lincoln-Douglas Debates
• Freeport Doctrine
• House Divided Speech
• Republican Party Platform
• Election of 1860 Key Details
• Fort Sumter
• Timeline of Secession

5.8 Key Content Covered:

• Regional Advantages
• Mobilization in the North
• Homestead Act, Morrill Land Grant Act, Pacific Railway Act, Greenbacks
• Draft Riots
• Mobilization of the South
• First Battle of Bull Run
• Four-Phased War
• Anaconda Plan
• Vicksburg
• Gettysburg
• Sherman's March to the Sea
• Appomattox Surrender

5.9 Key Content Covered:

• Revision of War Aims
• Conscription Act
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Black Soldiers in the Civil War
• Massachusetts 54th
• Fort Pillow Massacre
• Lincoln as a Wartime President
• Suspension of Habeas Corpus
• Civil War Propaganda
• Mathew Brady Photographs
• Gettysburg Address

5.10 Key Content Covered:

• War Aftermath
• Lincoln's Presidential Reconstruction (10% Plan, Wade-Davis Veto, Assassination)
• Johnson's Presidential Reconstruction
• Congressional Radical Reconstruction
• Memphis Massacre
• 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments
• Military Reconstruction
• Johnson's Impeachment
• 1868 Presidential Reconstruction
• Reconstruction Acts
• Women's Suffrage Movement Pivot

5.11 Key Content Covered:

• 40 Acres and a Mule // Special Field Order No. 15
• Freedmen's Bureau
• First African American Congressmen
• Black Codes
• Sharecropping
• Crop Lien System
• Ku Klux Klan
• Waning Northern Resolve
• Redeemer Governments
• Compromise of 1877