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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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" reading strategy" pg. 441, map ques. 1 & 2 pg. 443, sec asses. 1-6

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Reading strategy Kansas-Nebraska Act
Southern Reaction It would make Nebraska and Kansas free states, giving the North the advantage in the Senate.
Northern Reaction They would gain more people in the Senate from the North.
Geo. skills, map ques. How did Kansas- Nebraska Act change the amount of territory open slaveholding? It went from Utah Territory and NM Territory to Nebraska Territory to Canadian boundary and Kansas Territory
What territories were non-slaveholding in 1854? Washington Territory, Oregon Territory, and east part of Nebraska Territory
1. Key terms
1a. popular sovereignty Allowing the people living in a territory the right to decide by voting whether or not to outlaw slavery
1b. border ruffians Missourians who traveled in armed groups to vote in Kansas's election during the mid 1850s.
1c. civil war a conflict between opposing groups of citizens of the same country
2. describe how Northern abolitionists reacted to the Fugitive Slave Act. These people were very angry and refused to cooperate. Also helped runaways by use of Underground Railway
3. How did the popular sovereignty lead to violence in Kansas? pro and anti slavery groups rushed to Kansas to influence the vote their way. This led to fights between pro and antislavery supporters.
4. Could the violence in Kansas have been prevented if Congress has abandoned the Missouri Compromise? Explain. If they had abandoned the Missouri Compromise then the fight over Kansas becoming a free state or slave state, none of bloodshed would of happened because they could decide as a state either to be slave state or a free state.
5. 3 steps that led to bloodshed in Kansas. 1a. The passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act 2a. Pro-slavery Missourians crossed over to vote in the election 3a. antislavery people did not like that they crossed over
6. Study the map on page 443. From which territory or territories were the Nebraska and Kansas territories formed? Was the Utah territory closed to slaveholding? 1a. The Kansas and Nebraska territories were formed from the unorganized territory 2a. No, the Utah Territory was open to slaveholding.
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