Kansas-Nebraska Act OFOD

The Missouri Compromise, the compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act were all efforts to

• end fighting between midwestern farmers and native American Indians

• encourage manufacturing in the west

• increase the number of people who voted in presidential elections

• settle disputes over the spread of slavery to the western territories

Which of the following describes "Bleeding Kansas"?

• A violent slave uprising led by Joseph Cinque

• Violence in Kansas between proslavery and antislavery settlers prior to the Civil War

• The turning point of the Civil War, in which Robert E. Lee's army was routed from Kansas

• The devastation caused by a tornado in Kansas in 1854, which killed 55 people

What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?

• an act created to let Kansas and Nebraska decide whether they want slavery or not.

• an act to ensure that kansas and nebraska have slavery.

• an act created to make kansas and nebraska choose to be a confederate or union soldier.

• an act to make kansas and nebraska become free states.

What is popular sovereignty?

• The govt. Votes and majority wins

• The people fight until someone wins

• The govt. Votes to pass a law and majority wins.

• The people get to vote and majority wins.

Which of the following was one of the effects of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• Kansas and Nebraska were united into one territory

• Residents could vote on the issue of slavery

• Banned slavery in both Kansas and Nebraska

• Allowed slavery in both Kansas and Nebraska

This was a mini-Civil War fought in the Kansas territory between pro-slavery settlers and anti-slavery settlers

• Missouri Compromise

• Summer if 1856

• Bleeding Kansas

• Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas

Why were a lot of people moving to Kansas to vote?

• Popular sovereignty was allowing people to vote if they wanted Kansas to be a free state or a slave state

• They wanted Abraham Lincoln to be elected

• They wanted Charles Robinson to be elected Governor

• They really like voting

In the Missouri Compromise, what state was allowed to enter as a slave state?

• Missouri
• Maine
• Kentucky
• Ohio

In the Missouri Compromise, what state was allowed to enter as a free state?

• Missouri
• Maine
• Kentucky
• Alabama

In what way did the Compromise of 1850 appease the South?

• It created new taxes for railroad construction.
• It provided an end to the slave trade in Washington, D.C.
• It included a law requiring the return of escaped slaves
• It added California as a slave state