Bleeding Kansas Review

The concept of popular sovereignty under the Kansas-Nebraska Act:

• allowed Kansas to enter the Union as a slave state.  
• made the Underground Railroad legal.  
• brought about the Dred Scott decision.  
• allowed the people who lived in Kansas Territory to decide e3ht fate of slavery in the state.  

? was a slave from Lecompton who escaped on the Underground Railroad.  

• Clarina Nichols
• Andrea Reeder
• Ann Clark
• Harriet Beecher Stowe

Border Ruffians from Missouri voted in the first territorial election because:

• they intended to move to Kansas Territory in the future.  
• they wanted to see if they could get away with illegally voting in another state.  
• they wanted the proslavery forces to take control of Kansas Territory.  
• they did not know where the border of Missouri was located.  

? was a proslavery sheriff of Douglas County who attacked Lawrence and burned down newspaper offices and other buildings.  

• James Lane
• Andrew Reeder
• David Rice Atchison
• Samuel Jones

Under which constitution did Kansas become a state? 

• Topeka
• Lecompton
• Wyandotte
• Leavenworth

? was a well-known abolitionist who was willing to use violence to end slavery and was hanged for treason.  

• David Rice Atchison
• John Brown
• Andrew Reeder
• Charles Robinson

Abolitionists believed slavery was immoral and should be abolished.  

• True 
• False

Jayhawkers voted illegally in the first election in Kansas Territory.  

• False 
• True

The Compromise of 1850 allowed what to happen?

• Missouri joined the Union and Maine joined the Confederate states

• California joined the Union and Maine joined the Union

• California joined the Union and the Fugitive Slave Act was introduced

• The KS-NB Act was passed

What senator wrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• Franklin Pierce

• Stephen Douglas

• John Brown

• Charles Hamilton