Kansas Nebraska Act

Which of the following answers best describes how the elections held in Kansas did not solve the problems there?

• a. Many Border Ruffians voted illegally in Kansas.             

• b. Two rival governments were elected                                

• c. The state had as many slaves as they did free people

• d. The US government denied statehood to Kansas

What would be used to determine if slavery would be legal in Kansas Territory?

• Popular Voting

• Individual Sovereignty

• Popular Say

• Popular Sovereignty

The Kansas Nebraska Act got rid of which previous compromise

• Kansas Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• It did not get rid of any previous compromises

What did the Kansas Nebraska Act turn the territory into a battle ground over?

• Slavery

• Popular Sovereignty

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Abolititionism

Who was the man that proposed popular sovereignty in the Kansas territories?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Henry Clay

• John Brown

• Stephen Douglas

Which event came third?

• Kansas Nebraska Act

• Bleeding Kansas

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

Popular Sovereignty

• To be against slavery

• To be for slavery

• To allow citizens to vote to make a decision

• Congress holds a special vote

The Kansas Nebraska Act voided which former law?

• The Compromise of 1850

• Wilmot Proviso

• The Missouri Compromise

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

The nickname "Bleeding Kansas" came from

• The beautiful red colored waterfalls in Kansas

• The fact that Kansas had the worst doctors in the 1800s

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

• All the money that was being lost in Kansas due to the Gold Rush

Which of the following repealed the Missouri Compromise’s use of latitude as the boundary between slave and free territory and instead, instituted popular sovereignty?

• The Compromise of 1850

• The Dred Scott v. Sanford Case

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act

• The Fugitive Slave Act