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hst. chapter 15
section 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| P. 443 1. How did the Kansas-Nebraska act change the amount of territory open to slave holding? | Douglas was trying to figure out a plan for the nation to expand that both the North and the South would except that Kansas and Nebraska would be a free state so then they would leave the Missouri compromise. |
| P. 443 2. What territories were non-slave holding in 1854? | The free states in 1854 are California, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Connecticut, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, |
| 1. Use each of these terms in a sentence will help explain its meaning? Definitions below. | Popular sovereignty would allow people in territories to decide on a new president or other things. Border ruffians in Missouri crossed the border to vote in the election in Kansas. Slavery was one of the things that led to civil war in U.S.A. |
| 2. Describe how Northern abolitionists reacted to the fugitive slave act. | After the slave act the slaveholder's stepped up and started to get all the slaves they could. Enforcement of the law also led to mounting anger in the North, convincing more people more people of the evils of the evils of slavery. |
| 3. How did the popular sovereignty lead to violence in Kansas? | The Missouri compromise was next to Kansas which then Kansas became a battleground over slavery. Because people did an act on popular sovereignty which was making Kansas and Nebraska a free state with no slavery. |
| 4. Could the violence in Kansas have been prevented if congress had not abandoned the Missouri Compromise? Explain. | Yes i do think the violence in Kansas could have been prevented if they did not do make Nebraska and Kansas as a free state. |
| 6. Study the maps on page 443. From which territory or territories were the Nebraska and Kansas Territories formed? | Nebraska and Kansas Territories formed form Unorganized, Utah, and New Mexico Territories. |
| 6. Was the Utah territory closed to slaveholding? | Utah was opened to slave holding. |
| 1. popular sovereignty | political theory that government is subject to the will of people |
| 1. border ruffian | Missourians who traveled in armed groups to vote in Kansas' election during the 1850s. |
| 1. civil war | conflict between a opposing groups of citizens of the same country. Like the Northerners and the Southerns |