APUSH Period 5 Strive for a 5 Multiple Choice

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

emancipate slaves

violate federal law

oppose the restrictions on the discussion of slavery in the U.S. House of Representatives

violate personal liberty laws

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 Emancipation Proclamation

The ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment

The establishment of the Freedmens' Bureau

Congressional Reconstruction

free all slaves

prevent a British alliance with the Confederacy

spur on enlistments in the Union army

end slavery in the border states

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.

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

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

A northern majority in the legislative branch

Completion of the transcontinental railroad

An easing of sectional tension

Secession of South Carolina from the Union

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.

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.

attempts at compromise were abandoned.

the Civil War began.

South Carolina seceded from the Union.

the Emancipation Proclamation was made public.