Kansas-Nebraska Act Knowledge Check

Before 1854, slavery was banned from remaining Louisiana Purchase territory under the terms of _____.

• The compromise of 1850
• The Northwest Ordinance of 1787
• The 1820 Missouri Compromise
• The Wilmot Proviso

Democrat Stephen A. Douglas sponsored what became known as the Kansas-Nebraska Act because ______.

• He opposed the expansion of slavery into western territories
• He was a southerner
• He was an abolitionist
• He supported construction of a transcontinental railroad

Many northerners opposed passage of Douglas' proposal because_______

• It repealed the time-honored Missouri Compromise
• It provided for a transcontinental railroad along a southern route
• It included the admission of two new slave states to the Union
• Most were abolitionists by the 1850s

Passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act resulted in _______.

• Douglas's defeat in his re-election bid
• The collapse of the already weakened Whig party
• The disappearance of the Democratic party
• The secession of several southern states

The new Republican Party ______.

• Drew support from many southerners
• Was dedicated to a ban on the extension of slavery
• Supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Enjoyed victory in the Presidential election of 1856

The party whose candidate won the presidency in 1852.

• Democrat
• Whig
• Republican
• Free Soil

The abolitionist who led an attack along the Pottawatomie Creek with broad swords.

• Stephen Douglas
• Charles Sumner
• John Brown
• Preston Brooks

The man who beat a Senator unconscious with a cane

• Charles Sumner
• Preston Brooks
• John Brown
• Stephen Douglas

A territory with two governments in 1856

• Kansas
• Nebraska
• Missouri
• Naine

An act of violence where pro-slavery forces sought out anti-slavery members to punish them for treason.

• Sack of Lawrence
• Pottawatomie Massacre
• Bleeding Kansas
• Kansas-Nebraska Act