Effects of Kansas - Nebraska Act

Effects of Kansas - Nebraska Act

7th Grade

13 Qs

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Effects of Kansas - Nebraska Act

Effects of Kansas - Nebraska Act

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History

7th Grade

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13 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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After the Compromise of 1850, was there more territory open to slavery or territory closed to slavery?
territory open to slavery (slave)
territory closed to slavery (free)

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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The 1854 Kansas – Nebraska Act ended the 1820 Missouri Compromise. The Missouri Compromise kept the territory north of Missouri’s southern border as free. Why did northerner Stephen Douglas come up with the 1854 Kansas Nebraska Act?
Because the southerners wanted the transcontinental railroad to go through the South and the North wouldn’t agree
Because the northerners wanted the transcontinental railroad to go through the North and the South wouldn’t agree

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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Stephen Douglas’s plan, the Kansas Nebraska Act, ended the Missouri Compromise. The Missouri Compromise kept northern territory free. Why were some northerners mad that the Missouri Compromise was no longer a law?
Slavery might be voted into areas that were once supposed to be free
Northerners were afraid that Michigan would become a slave state

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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Stephen Douglas’s plan, the Kansas Nebraska Act ended the Missouri Compromise. The Missouri Compromise kept northern territory free. Why did many southerners want to end the Missouri Compromise?
Slavery might be voted into areas that were once going to be free
The Missouri Compromise abolished slavery everywhere in the USA

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was it about Franklin Pierce that many northerners and southerners voted for him to become president?
He was from the north AND he supported the Fugitive Slave Law
He was from California and grew cotton

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is popular sovereignty?
Having people vote to decide the rules or laws
Having the state courts decide laws and rules

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What did Texas Senator Sam Houston predict when he said that the bill “will convulse the country from Maine to the Rio Grande”?
That there was no more compromise, only fighting
That the Rio Grande would be the border of Maine

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