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

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 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

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 year was the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed?

• 1851

• 1853

• 1854

• 1856

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.

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