Unit 7.2 Antebellum Era

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

• end fighting between midwestern farmers and native American Indians

• encourage manufacturing in the west

• increase the number of people who voted in presidential elections

• settle disputes over the spread of slavery to the western territories

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

• Missouri Compromise 
• Summer if 1856
• Bleeding Kansas
• Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas

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

• Fugitive Slave Act 
• Bleeding Kansas
• Missouri Compromise 
• Kansas-Nebraska Act 

What is popular sovereignty?

• Where sovereignty is left to the government to decide

• Where sovereignty is left to the people to decide

Which of the following was one of the effects of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• Kansas and Nebraska were united into one territory

• Residents could vote on the issue of slavery

• Banned slavery in both Kansas and Nebraska

• Allowed slavery in both Kansas and Nebraska

Which of the following describes "Bleeding Kansas"?

• A violent slave uprising led by Joseph Cinque

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

• The turning point of the Civil War, in which Robert E. Lee's army was routed from Kansas

• The devastation caused by a tornado in Kansas in 1854, which killed 55 people

Who led the anti-slavery fighters?

• Jim Brown
• John Brown
• Joe Brown
• Phil Brown

This picture represents what event?

• Bleeding Kansas
• The Compromise of 1850
• The Kansas-Nebraska Act
• The Missouri Compromise

Who supported the incident portrayed above?

• Northern abolitionists who saw the opportunity to expand their base

• Southern slave holders who saw Brooks as the defender of the South.

• Member of the Republican Party who supported the action of Brooks.

• no one, this was an embarrassment of American politicians

What was the main goal of the abolitionist movement in the early and mid-1800s?

• to end slavery in the United states

• to grant women the right to vote

• to lower tariffs for southern states

• to enforce the fugitive slave act