Kansas - Nebraska Act

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The Missouri Compromise, the compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act were all efforts to

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settle disputes over the spread of slavery to the western territories

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This was a mini-Civil War fought in the Kansas territory between pro-slavery settlers and anti-slavery settlers.

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Bleeding Kansas

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This law (act) opened the Kansas and Nebraska territory to being possible slave states.

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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What is popular sovereignty?

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Where sovereignty is left to the people to decide

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Which of the following describes "Bleeding Kansas"?

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Violence in Kansas between proslavery and antislavery settlers prior to the Civil War

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The WHAT was part of the Compromise of 1850 and made it a crime to help runaway slaves?

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Fugitive Slave Act

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What year was the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed?

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1854

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The nickname "Bleeding Kansas" came from

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All of the violence and bloodshed in Kansas that resulted from the Kansas-Nebraska Act

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"Popular Sovereignty" means

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The right of the people living in a new territory to make a decision on slavery by vote

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Which of the following repealed the Missouri Compromise’s use of latitude as the boundary between slave and free territory and instead, instituted popular sovereignty? Options: The Compromise of 1850, The Dred Scott v. Sanford Case, The Kansas-Nebraska Act, The Fugitive Slave Act

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act