Kansas/Nebraska Act

What did the Kansas/Nebraska Act allow people in their territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide on?

• It allowed them to decide whether or not they wanted to allow slavery within their borders
• It allowed them to decide if they wanted to expand their territories
• It allowed them to be able to choose whether they wanted to move to Kansas or Nebraska
• It allowed them to choose if they wanted to keep each other from coming into their territories

What is popular sovereignty? 

• An agreement between two territories
• When two opposing sides find peace
• A belief that government is created by and subject to the will of the people
• A belief that there shouldn't be such thing as a government

Was popular sovereignty used in the Kansas/Nebraska act? 

• Yes
• No

What was "Bleeding Kansas"?

• A series of multiple violent political confrontations in the US between 1854 and 1861 that paved the way to the Civil War
• A war between Kansas and Nebraska between 1845 and 1850 that had a major influence on the Civil War.

What was the outcome?

• There was no outcome
• The conflict ended altogether
• Kansas became a battleground over slavery
• All of the above

What was the initial intention of the Kansas/Nebraska act?

• To open up thousands of new farms and to make feasible a Midwestern Transcontinental Railroad. 
• To join Kansas and Nebraska together in order to get more goods transported

Who were the Border Ruffians?

• The name given to the pro-slavery activists from Missouri who in 1854 to 1860 crossed the state border into Kansas to force the acceptance of slavery there.
• The pro-slavery activists who wanted to cross the border into the opposing territory in 1857.

What was the Kansas/Nebraska Bill?

• A bill that allowed the people who inhabited Kansas to migrate to the border of Nebraska
• A bill that divided the land west of Missouri into two territories: Kansas and Nebraska.

Who were the Free Staters?

• The name given to the people who were against slavery
• the name given to the people who were for slavery

Was the North or South of the US against slavery?

• The North
• The South