Expansion and Division- Notes 4 ( Gadsden Purchase & Kansas)

in 1853, President Franklin Pierce wanted to settle a land dispute with Mexico for a 30,000 mile piece of land. What was the other reason Pierce wanted this land for the U.S.?

• So there wasn't a second war with Mexico

• He wanted to build a transcontinental railroad from the Southern states

• He wanted to create another free state to balance the scales

• He just didn't want Mexico to have it

The land deal with Mexico was called the Gadsden Purchase. What was the agreement? Choose 3.

• The U.S. would pay $15 million for the land

• The deal would establish the final southern border of the U.S.

• The land would provide a path for the southern transcontinental railroad

• The U.S. would pay $10 million for 30,000 miles of land

• The U.S. would agree to never go to war with Mexico again.

In 1854, Senator Stephen Douglas proposed the creation of a transcontinental that would go through Chicago and into the Nebraska Territory. This would lead to what important law?

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Bleeding Kansas

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise and created two new territories that allowed for popular sovereignty to decide on the issue of slavery in the territories.

• True

• False

The South hated the Kansas-Nebraska Act and popular sovereignty to decide if slavery would be allowed in the new territories?

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Southerners supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act because it meant the territories might vote FOR slavery and enter the Union as slave states where as before, with the Missouri Compromise and the 36°30° line, they would have been free states.

What is popular sovereignty?

• people of territories decide for themselves over a subject

• something liked or enjoyed by many people

• the authority of a state to govern over another state.

After the Kansas-Nebraska Act, settlers from all areas rushed into the new territories to sway the vote on slavery. What did this lead to?

• Popular Sovereignty

• Harpers Ferry Raid

• A beating on the Senate floor

• Bleeding Kansas

True or False. The Whigs Party collapsed following the passage of the Kansas–Nebraska Act in 1854.

• True

• False

Southern, pro-slavery Whigs joined which party?

• Democratic Party

• Republican Party

Northern, anti-slavery Whigs joined which party?

• Democratic Party

• Republican Party