17-2 Trouble in Kansas

What was the major issue during the 1852 election?

• Taxes

• The Economy

• Health Care

• Slavery

Why did many southerners vote for Franklin Pierce (a northerner)?

• They didn't like the other candidates.

• He wanted to overturn the Compromise of 1850.

• They trusted him to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act.

• Pierce was a slave owner and strongly supported slavery.

The expanding railroad revived the debate whether or not slavery should expand westward.

• True

• False

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 an abolitionist

• He was a southerner

• He supported construction of a transcontinental railroad

Many northerners opposed passage the Kansas-Nebraska Act 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• It repealed the time-honored Missouri Compromise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 Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed slavery to exists north of the 36^o30' N line of latitude.

• True

• False

According to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, who decided if slavery would be allowed in the new territories?

• Popular Sovereignty (The people vote in state)

• The state government would decide

• The federal government would decide

• It would be left up to each individual who owned property in the new territory.

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

• John Brown's massacre

• The attack on Lawrence

What directly led to John Brown's "Pottawatomie Massacre"?

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act

• The "Sack of Lawrence"

• The overturning of the Missouri Compromise

• The compromise of 1850

After the Sack of Lawrence, Representative Preston Brooks beat Senator Charles Sumner with a cane for insulting a pro-slavery senator and relative Andrew Pickens.

• True

• False