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| 1 | Westward expansion increases slaveryby ebushey | 14 terms | April 28, 2009 |
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| 1 | a law that allowed voters in kansas and nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery | 6 sets | |
| 2 | act passed in 1854 which divided the nebraska territory into two parts, kansas and nebraska and left the issue of slavery up to popular sovereignty. | 5 sets | |
| 3 | 0 | 5 sets | |
| 4 | law that allowed voters in kansas and nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery | 4 sets | |
| 5 | created the territories of kansas and nebraska, opened new lands, repealed the missouri compromise of 1820, and allowed the settlers to decide whether or not to have slavery within those territories | 4 sets | |
| 6 | law that split nebraska into the territories of nebraska and kansas and allowed for popular sovereignty there | 4 sets | |
| 7 | divided the remainder of the louisiana purchase into two territories in which slavery issues would be determined by popular sovereignty | 3 sets | |
| 8 | this bill introduced by senator stephen douglas proposed that the nebraska territory be divided into two territories kansas and nebraska. the settlers living in each territory would settle the issue of slavery by popular sovereignty? *** | 2 sets | |
| 9 | proposed to repeal antislavery provision of the missouri compromise. also proposed dividing the region into two territories. nebraska would be northernmost and kansas southern. | 2 sets | |
| 10 | a law that allowed voters in kansas and nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery. | 2 sets | |
| 11 | law that allowed people to vote for slavery in territories where the missouri compromise had banned it. | 2 sets | |
| 12 | creates the territories of kansas and nebraska and opens the slave issue to popular sovereignty | 2 sets | |
| 13 | opened new lands and determined in which territories slavery would be allowed in. | 2 sets | |
| 14 | stephen douglas' attempt to allow popular sovereignty to decide the slavery issue in the territories in exchange for the trans-continental rail road linking california and illinois. | 2 sets | |
| 15 | created kansas and nebraska, repealed compromise of 1820, establish pop. sovereignty | 2 sets | |
| 16 | this act stated that the territory of nebraska would be sliced into two territories- nebraska and kansas. their status about slavery would be solved with popular soverienty. | 2 sets | |
| 17 | slavery decided by popular sovereignty-- led to bleeding kansas | 2 sets | |
| 18 | law that allowed voters in the kansas and nebraska territories to choose whether to allow slavery | 2 sets | |
| 19 | 1854 - this act repealed the missouri compromise and established a doctrine of congressional nonintervention in the territories. popular sovereignty (vote of the people) would determine whether kansas and nebraska would be slave or free states. | 2 sets | |
| 20 | proposed by stephen douglas that the territories of kansas and nebraska could decide whether they wanted to be slave or free | 2 sets | |
| 21 | voters to choose whether to allow slavery | 2 sets | |
| 22 | allowed voters in kansas and nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery | 2 sets | |
| 23 | 1854, extended popular sovereignty to the kansas-nebrerska territories, missouri compromise wos contractdicted | 2 sets | |
| 24 | 1854 law that called for the creation of these two new territories, and stated that the citizens in each territory should decide whether slavery would be allowed there | 2 sets | |
| 25 | law that provided for popular sovereignty in kansas | 2 sets | |
| 26 | it proposed that the nebraska territory be divided into two territories, kansas and nebraska. the settlers living in each territory would be able to decide the issue of slavery by popular sovereignty. | 2 sets | |
| 27 | 1854 law that repealed the missouri compromise and used popular sovereignty for the mexican cession lands | 1 set | |
| 28 | this act was proposed by stephen a. douglas in 1854. he wanted a transcontinental railroad. | 1 set | |
| 29 | law that split the nebraska territory into kansas and nebraska and allowed people to vote on slavery in these territories | 1 set | |
| 30 | created the territories of kansas and nebraska, opened new lands, repealed the missouri compromise of 1820, and allowed settlers in those territories to determine if they would allow slavery within their boundaries. the initial purpose of the kansas-nebraska act was to create opportunities for a mideastern transcontinental railroad. it was not problematic until popular sovereignty was written into the proposal. the act was designed by democratic senator stephen a. douglas of illinois. | 1 set | |
| 31 | law that opened the territories of kansas and nebraska to slavery, allowing the people who settled in these territories to decide for themselves whether to form slave or free states | 1 set | |
| 32 | divide new proposed area into to two territories (nebraska, kansas) | 1 set | |
| 33 | stephen douglas: overturned missouri compromise for popular sovereignty | 1 set | |
| 34 | an act of congress that organized the territories of kansas and nebraska on the basis of popular sovereignty | 1 set | |
| 35 | settlers living in a territory are able to decide the issue of slavery by popular sovereignty | 1 set | |
| 36 | act in 1854 that divided the nebraska territory in to 2 separate territories, & repealed the ban on slavery n of the missouri compromise line, the citizens of each territory would be able to determine whether their state would be slave or free | 1 set | |
| 37 | a bill by stephen douglas opening kansas and nebraska territory for white settlement, would make that land safe to run the transcontinental railroad through, so that douglas's home city of chicago would be the eastern terminal; the bill included the implementation of the controversial popular sovereignty and repealed the missouri compromise; northerners thought was proslavery and protested; most likely cost douglas the presidency | 1 set | |
| 38 | 1854 - repealed the missouri compromise and stated each new state created from la territory would decide to be a free or slave state. northern and southerners financed settlers in both territories to support their position on slavery. small scale civil war broke out in both areas | 1 set | |
| 39 | law that allowed voting in the rest of la purchase | 1 set | |
| 40 | law that gave people living in those territories the right to decide if they wanted slavery; this changed the rules of the missouri compromise which had outlawed slavery there. | 1 set | |