Kansas-Nebraska

What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• Allowing people in that territory to decide whether or whether not if they wanted to allow slavery within their slavery

• A war between Kansas and Nebraska

• An agreement between Kansas and Nebraska that stated they would not go to war with each other

What is Popular Sovereignty within the Kansas-Nebraska Act mean?

• Only allowing the powerful people to own slaves

• Letting everyone in that area choose if they want to own slaves

• Only allowing rich people to own slaves

True or False: The Kansas Nebraska Act enforced slavery in the territory

• True

• False

True or False The anti slavery held another election, however pro-slavery settlers refused to vote. This resulted in the establishment of two opposing legislatures within the Kansas territory.

• True

• False

What is Bleeding Kansas?

• A violent confrontation between people for slavery and people against slavery

• A violent confrontation between the government and the people of Kansas

• A violent confrontation between the whites and the blacks

What was the outcome of Bleeding Kansas?

• Kansas turned to a all slavery state

• Kansas stayed as it was when people could choose if they wanted slavery or not

• Kansas no longer allowed slavery and they admitted to the Union as a free state

Who proposed the idea of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Franklin Pierce

• Charles Summer

• Stephen A. Douglas

After the Kansas-Nebraska act was passed, pro-slavery and anti-slavery supporters rushed into affect the outcome of the first held there after the law went into effect?

• False

• True

When was the Kansas Nebraska act passed?

• December 22, 1862

• July 19, 1904

• January 1, 2019

• May 30, 1854

What was the overall point of making the Kansas Nebraska Act?

• To make Kansas and Nebraska come together as a new state

• To decide if people within their borders wanted to allow slavery

• It was to make slaves work harder in specific areas

• To settle the war between Kansas and Nebraska