Period 5: 1844 – 1877 (10-17% of the Curriculum) 

• Manifest Destiny
• Mexican-American War
• Debates over slavery (such as the Wilmot Proviso)
• Nativist Movement
• Slavery as a “Positive Good”
• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Dred Scott Decision
• Republican Party
• Election of 1860
• Free Soil Platform
• Civil War
• Emancipation Proclamation
• The 13, 14, and 15 Amendments
• Sharecropping
• Radical Republicans
• Reconstruction

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