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Kansas–Nebraska Act Quiz

Authored by Greg Pittroff

History

11th Grade

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Kansas–Nebraska Act Quiz
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who drafted the Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854?

Thomas Hart Benton

Abraham Lincoln

Stephen A. Douglas

Franklin Pierce

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which president signed the Kansas–Nebraska Act into law?

Franklin Pierce

Andrew Johnson

James Buchanan

Abraham Lincoln

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was the main purpose of the Kansas–Nebraska Act?

To establish a transcontinental railroad

To create the territories of Kansas and Nebraska

To ban slavery in the territories

To repeal the Northwest Ordinance

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What did the Kansas–Nebraska Act effectively repeal?

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

Compromise of 1850

Missouri Compromise

Emancipation Proclamation

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was the policy of letting the voters of a territory decide whether or not slavery should exist in it called?

Popular sovereignty

Manifest Destiny

Abolitionism

Secessionism

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which event was a result of the Kansas–Nebraska Act and the tensions over slavery it inflamed?

Lincoln–Douglas debates

Ostend Manifesto

Bleeding Kansas

Panic of 1857

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What did the Kansas–Nebraska Act lead to the creation of, after the ailing Whig Party broke apart?

Republican Party

Green Party

Libertarian Party

Democratic Party

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