As the nation expanded; the debate over slavery also grew. Congress worked to keep the nation united and maintained a balance between slaveholding and free states through several compromises. Both sides knew that if the balance was lost, the region with more votes in Congress would control the future of the country. People risked their lives to stop the spread of slavery, some even took the lives of others.

the answer to number 5 is fort sumter

i do believe its (d) it allowed the government to offer pioneers sixty acres of western land if they lived on it and made improvements to it.

explanation: signed into law in may 1862, the homestead act opened up settlement in the western united states, allowing any american, including freed slaves, to put in a claim for up to 160 free acres of federal land. by the end of the civil war, 15,000 homestead claims had been established, and more followed in the postwar years

the anwser is a) to prevent military conflict