How Did Passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act Impact the Settlement

question 26

Multiple Choice

How did passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act impact the settlement of Kansas?

• A) The vagaries left about the status of slavery discouraged settlement.
• B) Popular sovereignty encouraged violence-prone supporters and opponents of slavery to flood Kansas.
• C) It ensured that Kansas would be admitted into the Union as a free state with a population deeply committed to abolition.
• D) It made Kansas a slave state with a majority population of slaveholders.
• E) This is a trick question. The act had no impact on settlement of Kansas.

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