Kansas - Nebraska

Supporters of the Kansas-Nebraska Act

• opposed slavery.

• supported small farmers.

• supported increased power for the states.

• believed it gave the states too much power.

Who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• Northern senators

• Southern senators

• Senator Stephen A. Douglas

• Congressman David R. Atchison

The Kansas-Nebraska Act created the

• states of Kansas and Nebraska.

• territories of Kansas and Nebraska.

• constitutions of Kansas and Nebraska.

• Indian territory in Kansas and Nebraska.

According to the Kansas-Nebraska Act,

• all territories above the 36°30’ N line would be free, while those below it would allow slavery.

• the people in each territory would vote on whether they wanted to allow slavery or not.

• the territories of Kansas and Nebraska would enter the Union as slave states.

• the territories of Kansas and Nebraska would enter the Union as free states.

Which best explains why Southerners in Congress supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• It allowed slavery where the Missouri Compromise had banned it.

• It permitted the practice of slavery in all US territories.

• Southerners favored expanding the transcontinental railroad.

• Southerners believed strongly in popular sovereignty.

Which best explains how the Kansas-Nebraska Act affected the Missouri Compromise?

• Which best explains how the Kansas-Nebraska Act affected the Missouri Compromise?

• It overturned the Missouri Compromise by requiring slavery in states below the 36°30’ N line.

• It overturned the Missouri Compromise by allowing the possibility of slavery in states above the 36°30’ N line.

• It weakened the Missouri Compromise by allowing the possibility of slavery in states below the 36°30’ N line.

Why did some Northerners in Congress disapprove of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• It could allow slavery to exist in Northern territories.

• It could force all Northern states to accept slavery.

• It did not allow for the expansion of the transcontinental railroad.

• It did not allow the people to decide the slavery issue for themselves.

How did the United States acquire the land that became Kansas and Nebraska?

• in the Kansas-Nebraska Act

• as part of the Louisiana Purchase

• in the Mexican-American War

• as a purchase from Canada

Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act with the strongest support from

• Northerners

• Southerners.

• farmers.

• railroad workers.

In the 1800s, the US government wanted to keep the number of free states and slave states equal in order to

• prevent one region from becoming more economically unstable than another.

• maintain a balance in Congress between representatives who supported slavery and those who opposed it.

• make it less likely that enslaved people would attempt to escape from a slave state.

• provide settlers in territories such as Kansas and Nebraska the right to vote on slavery for themselves.