The Kansas-Nebraska Act

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

This law (act) opened the Kansas and Nebraska territory to being possible slave states 

• Fugitive Slave Act 
• Bleeding Kansas
• Missouri Compromise 
• Kansas-Nebraska Act 

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 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

The WHAT was part of the Compromise of 1850 and made it a crime to help runaway slaves?

• Fugitive Slave Act
• Fugitive Criminal Act
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• California-Maine Act

The Missouri Compromise allowed what state to be a slave state and what state to be a free state?

• Missouri/ Maine
• Maine/Missouri
• Texas/California
• California/ D.C

This picture represents what event?

• Bleeding Kansas
• The Compromise of 1850
• The Kansas-Nebraska Act
• The Missouri Compromise

How did each of the acts in the box above impact the slavery issue within the United States?

• Each act left the decision to spread slavery to the individual states.

• Each act attempted to reduce conflict between slave and free states.

• Each act limited slavery to places where it already existed.

• Each act kept a strict balance between slave and free states.

The nickname "Bleeding Kansas" came from

• The beautiful red colored waterfalls in Kansas

• The fact that Kansas had the worst doctors in the 1800s

• All of the violence and bloodshed in Kansas that resulted from the Kansas-Nebraska Act

• All the money that was being lost in Kansas due to the Gold Rush