Kansas Nebraska Act (8.10.4)

Stephen A. Douglas was elected to Congress

during the mid 1840s from this state:

• Kansas

• Nebraska

• Illinois

• Ohio

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He was a radical abolitionist who moved to

Kansas from New England in 1856 and

vowed revenge against pro slavery

supporters:

• John Tyler

• Stephen Douglas

• William Lloyd Garrison

• John Brown

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Pro slavery farmers from this neighboring

state illegally voted in the Kansas Territories first election:

• Iowa

• Oklahoma

• Missouri

• Arkansas

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The Kansas Nebraska Act eliminated the restriction put into place years earlier in 1820 by this, which prohibited slavery north of 36˚30’:

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

• Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

• Dred Scott Decision

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Douglas advocated for a transcontinental

_____ that would stretch all the way west to

the Pacific Ocean:

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Match the following

• President of the US who opposes Congress findings that Kansas elections were unfair

• Pottawatomie

  Massacre

• This occurred when a posse of around 800

  pro slavery supporters set fire and looted buildings

• Sacking of

  Lawrence

• Antislavery Kansans established their own

  legislature in this city

• Topeka

• Small group of anti slavery men killed 5 pro slavery men in Kansas

• Franklin Pierce

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What is popular sovereignty?

• Where sovereignty is left to the government to decide

• Where sovereignty is left to the people to decide