APUSH Period 5

The South had an advantage over the North in

• a larger population
• better military commanders
• more industry
• more transportation

The GREATEST strength of the North was

• its military leadership
• its navy
• its moral high ground
• its economy

What officially abolished slavery in the US?

• Emancipation Proclamation
• Surrender of Robert E. Lee
• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment

The Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves

• in the Border States
• in the South
• in the entire US
• in the West

Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820:

• the remaining Louisiana Purchase territory was divided into slave and free zones.
  
• Congress banned slavery in any new territory that might ever be added to the United States.
  
• Missouri agreed to gradual emancipation of slavery in exchange for admission to the Union.
• Ohio became a free state to balance the admission of Missouri as a slave state.
  

All of the following statements about the Fourteenth Amendment are true EXCEPT:

• It was vehemently opposed by President Johnson.
  
• It guaranteed all citizens the equal protection of the law.
  
• It permitted former high-ranking Confederates to hold office.
  
• It declared that all persons born in the United States were citizens.
  

Which trend was most significant in creating the conflict with the Plains Indians that resulted in the Dawes Act?

• railroad expansion to the West Coast
  
• the extermination of the bison population throughout the Great Plains
  
• the Social Gospel movement
  
• homesteaders expanding into the plains region
  

The slogan “Manifest Destiny” referred to the conviction of Americans in the 1840s that the United States had a(n)

• God-Given right to exist as a nation.
  
• opportunity to replace greed with benevolence
  
• obligation to spread across the continent.
• mission to free slaves.
  

The Free Soil Party, like many northerners:

• feared the expansion of slavery in the west would be competition for white labor.
  
• cost Henry Clay the presidency by siphoning off votes from him in New York.
  
• was powerful enough to convince James Polk not to seek reelection.
  
• strongly opposed the Wilmot Proviso but agreed to let it pass as part of a compromise.
  

An increase in which of the following was the key part of the Kansas-Nebraska Act to attract Southern support?

• Transportation in the South
  
• Popular sovereignty
  
• Fugitive Slave Act
  
• Representation in Congress