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Kansas-Nebraska Act Flashcards

1
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What percentage of opposition was from North?

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91%

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What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act 1954 do?

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  • Repealed the Missouri Compromise
  • Introduced popular sovereignty
  • Divided the land into 2 pieces.
    • Kansas = West of Missouri
    • Nebraska = No plantation agriculture
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Douglas’s personal motivation for creating the Kansas Nebraska Act?

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  • ‘I could travel from Boston to Chicago by the light of my own effigy.’
  • Could enhance his popularity in Illinois.
  • Financial benefit from a railroad connecting Chicago.
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When was the Kansas-Nebraska Act introduced?

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January 1954

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Slave Power Conspiracy?

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Northern belief that Southerners were plotting to expand slavery. They were never specific about who was involbed.

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Why did Douglas want slavery in Kansas-Nebraska?

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Could build a transcontinental railroad through the territory.

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How did Douglas describe the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

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‘A hell of a storm’

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Salmon Chase?

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  • Lawyer
  • Whig politician
  • Leading abolitionist
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What piece of abolitionist propaganda did Salmon Chase write?

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‘The Appeal of the Independent Democrats in Congress to the People of the United States’
- Published January 1954

Argued that the Kansas-Nebraska Act was a ‘gross violation of a sacred pledge’

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Sermon delivered by Theodore Parker on Slave Power?

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‘the Slave Power carries the day’ and the Kansas-Nebraska Act

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When did the Kansas-Nebraska Act become law?

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May 1854
- 3 months of debate

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What percentage of Southern Congressmen voted for the Kansas Nebraska Act?

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90%

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What percentage of Northern Congressmen voted against the Kansas Nebraska Act?

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64%

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Northern Democrat votes for the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

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44 voted for and 43 voted against

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Where would the railroad link?

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Pacific coast and Atlantic.
- It would need to run through a secure US state

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How does historian John Ashworth view the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

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It demonstrates the weakness of slavery in 1854.

17
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How many slaves in Missouri in 1854?

18
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Divisions in the democrat party?

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Southern democrats supported Douglas
Northern saw the Kansas Nebraska Act as a betrayal of 1820.

Civil War - America (18 decks)

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