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- 1. Multiple-choice30 seconds1 pt
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
- 2. Multiple-choice30 seconds1 ptThis was a mini-Civil War fought in the Kansas territory between pro-slavery settlers and anti-slavery settlersMissouri CompromiseSummer if 1856Bleeding KansasPottawatomie Creek, Kansas
- 3. Multiple-choice30 seconds1 ptThis law (act) opened the Kansas and Nebraska territory to being possible slave statesFugitive Slave ActBleeding KansasMissouri CompromiseKansas-Nebraska Act
- 4. Multiple-choice45 seconds1 pt
What is popular sovereignty?
Where sovereignty is left to the government to decide
Where sovereignty is left to the people to decide
- 5. Multiple-choice30 seconds1 pt
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
- 6. Multiple-choice30 seconds1 pt
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
- 7. Multiple-choice30 seconds1 ptThe WHAT was part of the Compromise of 1850 and made it a crime to help runaway slaves?Fugitive Slave ActFugitive Criminal ActKansas-Nebraska ActCalifornia-Maine Act
- 8. Multiple-choice30 seconds1 ptWho led the anti-slavery fighters?Jim BrownJohn BrownJoe BrownPhil Brown
- 9. Multiple-choice30 seconds1 ptThe Missouri Compromise allowed what state to be a slave state and what state to be a free state?Missouri/ MaineMaine/MissouriTexas/CaliforniaCalifornia/ D.C
- 10. Multiple-choice30 seconds1 ptThis picture represents what event?Bleeding KansasThe Compromise of 1850The Kansas-Nebraska ActThe Missouri Compromise
