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| 1 | Westward expansion increases slaveryby ebushey | 14 terms | April 28, 2009 |
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| 1 | created the territories of kansas and nebraska, opened new lands, repealed the missouri compromise of 1820, and allowed the settlers to decide whether or not to have slavery within those territories | 8 sets | |
| 2 | a law that allowed voters in kansas and nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery | 6 sets | |
| 3 | 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 | |
| 4 | 0 | 5 sets | |
| 5 | law that allowed voters in kansas and nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery | 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 | 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. | 3 sets | |
| 9 | 1854, extended popular sovereignty to the kansas-nebrerska territories, missouri compromise wos contractdicted | 2 sets | |
| 10 | law that allowed people to vote for slavery in territories where the missouri compromise had banned it. | 2 sets | |
| 11 | a law that allowed voters in kansas and nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery. | 2 sets | |
| 12 | 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 | |
| 13 | abolished the missouri compromise and allowed people in kansas and nebraska to decide if they wanted slavery or not. | 2 sets | |
| 14 | opened new lands and determined in which territories slavery would be allowed in. | 2 sets | |
| 15 | law that allowed voters in the kansas and nebraska territories to choose whether to allow slavery | 2 sets | |
| 16 | slavery decided by popular sovereignty-- led to bleeding kansas | 2 sets | |
| 17 | this act set up kansas and nebraska as states. each state would use popular sovereignty to decide what to do about slavery. people who were proslavery and antislavery moved to kansas, but some antislavery settlers were against the act. this began guerrilla warfare. | 2 sets | |
| 18 | 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 | |
| 19 | proposed by stephen douglas that the territories of kansas and nebraska could decide whether they wanted to be slave or free | 2 sets | |
| 20 | 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 | |
| 21 | created kansas and nebraska, repealed compromise of 1820, establish pop. sovereignty | 2 sets | |
| 22 | voters to choose whether to allow slavery | 2 sets | |
| 23 | 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 | |
| 24 | law that provided for popular sovereignty in kansas | 2 sets | |
| 25 | allowed voters in kansas and nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery | 2 sets | |
| 26 | 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 | |
| 27 | 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 | |
| 28 | 1854, 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. | 2 sets | |
| 29 | creates the territories of kansas and nebraska and opens the slave issue to popular sovereignty | 2 sets | |
| 30 | this legislation was passed to help with the settlement of the west and to lay the ground work for a transactional railroad | 1 set | |
| 31 | during this event, five pro-slavery citizens were hacked to death with broad swords by john brown at pottawatomie creek | 1 set | |
| 32 | in 1854, this allowed for the people in these territories to vote wheter they wished to have slavery or not. | 1 set | |
| 33 | an act of congress that organized the territories of kansas and nebraska on the basis of popular sovereignty | 1 set | |
| 34 | law that split the nebraska territory into kansas and nebraska and allowed people to vote on slavery in these territories | 1 set | |
| 35 | law that declared "popular sovereignty" in new territories west of repealed the missouri compromise because it didnt prohibit slavery. | 1 set | |
| 36 | 1854; after the apparent peace that followed the comp of 1850, this bill, sponsored by stephen douglas, proposed the opening of the kans-neb territories based on the idea of pop sov. he hoped to benefit himself and his illinois constituents by accelerating the start of the transcontinental rr thru those areas, but the primary result was to stir up heated emotions over the slave issue, specifically because the bill implicitly repealed the provisions of the mo comp that banned slavery in those areas. when elections were held to decide whether part of the territory should be free or slave, a virtual civil war erupted in "bleeding kansas." | 1 set | |
| 37 | law that split the nebraska territory into kansas and nevraska and allowed people to vote on slavery in these territories | 1 set | |
| 38 | 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 | |
| 39 | created 2 new territories allowed kansas and nebraska to vote on question of slavery | 1 set | |
| 40 | a bill proposed by stephen douglas that said the nebraska territory would be divided and the states would decide if they would be slave or free | 1 set | |