kansas-nebraska act review

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

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

What is popular sovereignty?

• Where sovereignty is left to the government to decide

• Where sovereignty is left to the people to decide

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

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

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

Who led the anti-slavery fighters?

• Jim Brown
• John Brown
• Joe Brown
• Phil Brown

Democrat Stephen A. Douglas sponsored what became known as the Kansas-Nebraska Act because ______.

• He opposed the expansion of slavery into western territories
• He was a southerner
• He was an abolitionist
• He supported construction of a transcontinental railroad

Many northerners opposed passage of Douglas' proposal because_______

• It repealed the time-honored Missouri Compromise
• It provided for a transcontinental railroad along a southern route
• It included the admission of two new slave states to the Union
• Most were abolitionists by the 1850s

The abolitionist who led an attack along the Pottawatomie Creek with broad swords.

• Stephen Douglas
• Charles Sumner
• John Brown
• Preston Brooks