SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
TENSION OVER SLAVERY IN THE 1850S
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Question
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Thousands of citizens of Missouri illegally voted in Kansas.
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The legislature created rules that forbid criticism of slavery.
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President Pierce supported the anti-slavery government’s right to exist.
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A separate, anti-slavery government was created.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Kansas-Nebraska Act upheld all of the following EXCEPT: the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
Detailed explanation-2: -Slavery existed in Kansas Territory, but on a much smaller scale than in the South. Most slaveholders owned only one or two slaves. Many slaves were women and children who performed domestic work rather than farm labor.
Detailed explanation-3: -It became law on May 30, 1854. The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty. It also produced a violent uprising known as “Bleeding Kansas, ” as proslavery and antislavery activists flooded into the territories to sway the vote.
Detailed explanation-4: -The main issue of Pierce’s presidency was slavery. In 1854 he signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which he hoped would satisfy both sides of the debate. The act repealed the Missouri Compromise, which prohibited slavery in the U.S. territories north of Missouri’s southern border.