Kansas - Acts of Compromise??

What is a free-stater?

• A person who supported slavery in Kansas

• Someone who moved to Kansas to help ensure it would be a free state

• A political candidate in Kansas

• A resident of Kansas who was born there

What did Stephen A. Douglas introduce?

• The idea of popular sovereignty and the Kansas-Nebraska Act

• The Compromise of 1850

• The Missouri Compromise of 1820

• The Fugitive Slave Act

What did the Missouri Compromise of 1820 accomplish?

• Allowed slavery in all US territories

• Banned slavery in the lands of the Louisiana Purchase, North of the 36'30 N latitude and made Missouri and Maine US states

• Introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Outlawed the slave trade in Washington D.C.

What were the key points of the Compromise of 1850?

• Brought Texas into the US as a slave state, passed the Fugitive Slave Act, and outlawed the slave trade in New York

• Brought California into the US as a free state, passed the Fugitive Slave Act, and outlawed the slave trade in Washington D.C.

• Banned slavery in the lands of the Louisiana Purchase, North of the 36'30 N latitude

• Introduced the idea of popular sovereignty and the Kansas-Nebraska Act

Who were the Missourians who crossed the border to make raids on antislavery settlements?

• Abolitionists

• Jayhawkers

• Bushwackers

• Free-Staters

What were Kansans who made raids on Missouri known as?

• Border Ruffians

• Abolitionists

• Free-Staters

• Jayhawkers

What does the Kansas-Nebraska Act do?

• Allowed territories to decide the issue of slavery through Popular Sovereignty

• Made the practice of Slavery illegal in western US territories

• Made Slavery legal in all US territories

• Allowed Kansas and Nebraska to become States

Why were a lot of people moving to Kansas to vote?

• Popular sovereignty was allowing people to vote if they wanted Kansas to be a free state or a slave state

• They wanted Abraham Lincoln to be elected

• They wanted Charles Robinson to be elected Governor

• They really like voting

Why was the Fugitive Slave Act controversial?

• It only applied to the Southern states

• It made slavery legal in all states

• It required people in free states to assist in the capture of escaped slaves

• It allowed slaves to vote

What caused the violence known as "Bleeding Kansas"?

• A natural disaster

• A disagreement over land boundaries

• The debate over whether slavery should be allowed in Kansas

• A war between the United States and Mexico