In the above passage (Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1851), Emerson is critical of which act as being "this filthy enactment"?
The designation of an arbitrary dividing line between slave and free states
An act allowing Congress to upset the balance of power in the Senate in favor of slave states
Federal law requiring states to assist in the capture and return of slaves
A Supreme Court decision that prevent Congress from banning slavery in the territories
The above passage (Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1851) could be construed as encouraging northern states to
emancipate slaves
violate federal law
oppose the restrictions on the discussion of slavery in the U.S. House of Representatives
violate personal liberty laws
The act referenced above (Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1851) was part of a compromise to
allow Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state.
allow a southern route for a transcontinental railroad.
allow California to enter the Union as a free state.
end the threat of southern states nullifying the protective tariff.
The above letter (Abraham Lincoln to Horace Greeley) helps to best explain which of the following?
The Emancipation Proclamation
The ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment
The establishment of the Freedmens' Bureau
Congressional Reconstruction
The Emancipation Proclamation was most designed to
free all slaves
prevent a British alliance with the Confederacy
spur on enlistments in the Union army
end slavery in the border states
Which of the following was NOT a result of the Civil War?
The theory of perpetual union was validated.
The South became the industrial center of the nation by 1877.
Wartime legislation encourage westward expansion.
The Republican Party dominated the presidency until 1884.
The Mexican-American War resulted in
Texas being annexed by the United States
the elimination of slavery west of the Mississippi.
the breaking of U.S. diplomatic relations with Spain.
renewed debate over the expansion of slavery
The territory that the United States gain as a result of the Mexican-American War
led to the division of Kansas and Nebraska into separate territories.
entered the Union slave free as a result of the Wilmot Proviso.
was largely unsuited to slavery.
put to rest the idea that popular sovereignty was a workable means of governing the extensions of slavery into the territories
The Mexican-American War and its aftermath led most directly to which of the following?
A northern majority in the legislative branch
Completion of the transcontinental railroad
An easing of sectional tension
Secession of South Carolina from the Union
The Republican Party platform of 1860 was an indication that the party
supported the abolition of slavery.
sought to broaden its appeal to include southerners.
maintained the fundamental principles on which it was founded.
was moving toward a more nativist stance.
The Republican Party platform of 1860 attempted to broaden its appeal to include
northern manufacturing interests.
a southern route for a transcontinental railroad.
support for filibustering expeditions into Latin America.
Know-Nothing supporters who had cost them the election of 1856.
The most immediate result of Lincoln's election in 1860 was that
attempts at compromise were abandoned.
the Civil War began.
South Carolina seceded from the Union.
the Emancipation Proclamation was made public.
