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Unit 5: Period 5: 1844–1877

Sectional Conflict: Regional Differences

Explain how mass immigration, nativism, free-labor and free-soil ideas, abolitionism and the defense of slavery pulled North and South apart before 1860.

Topic 5.5 · 15 min read

This lesson comes with the AP United States History plan

In this lesson

  1. 01Immigrants remake the North and the West
  2. 02Nativism becomes a political movement
  3. 03Free labor and free soil in the North
  4. 04Abolitionists in the 1850s
  5. 05The defense of slavery
  6. 06Worked examples
  7. 07Where students lose points
  8. 08On the exam

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