U6 L9: Bleeding Kansas (8.58)-Practice

Locate the Nebraska Territory.

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Locate the Kansas Territory.

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Locate the Utah Territory.

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Locate the New Mexico Territory.

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Identify the locations important to the Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854.

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Utah Territory

Nebraska Territory

Missouri

New Mexico Territory

Tennessee

Texas

Oregon Territory

California

Kansas Territory

Maine

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Supporters of the Missouri Compromise opposed the Kansas Nebraska Act because...

• Free states would now outnumber slave states in both the Senate and the House of Representatives.

• Northerners who opposed slavery were no longer responsible for following the conditions of the Fugitive Slave Act.

• Territories north of the 36°30’ N latitude line could allow slavery through popular sovereignty.

• The bill split the powerful Whig Party and led to the rise of the Republican Party led by Abraham Lincoln.

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What occurred during the Sumner-Brooks incident?

• Brooks attacked Sumner for arguing that Kansas should enter the Union as a free state.

• Sumner attacked Brooks for suggesting that the Missouri Compromise should be overturned.

• Brooks attacked Sumner for joining the Republican Party and for supporting Abraham Lincoln.

• Sumner attacked Brooks for arguing that the Fugitive Slave Act was unconstitutional.

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Organize these actions and events into the compromise or act they match.

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(a) Missouri Compromise

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(b) Compromise of 1850

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(c) Kansas-Nebraska Act

• popular sovereignty

• leads to "Bleeding Kansas" conflict

• end of 36 30 line

• California = free state

• amended Fugitive Slave Act

• 36 30 Parallel is the line moving west

• Maine = free state

• Missouri = slave state

• end of slave trade in Washington DC

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What was the Republican party's platform?

• pro-slavery

• full equality for African-Americans

• opposed the spread of slavery into the West

What event triggered the creation of the Republican party?

• the Missouri Compromise

• the Compromise of 1850

• the Kansas Nebraska Act