One of Stephen Douglas's mistakes in proposing the Kansas-Nebraska Act was
a. not securing the transcontinental railroad for the North.
b. overestimating the protest to the bill.
c. allowing slavery to spread into new territory.
d. underestimating the depth of northern opposition to the spread of slavery.
e. believing that slavery could not survive in Kansas.
Question 2
Transportation in colonial America was
a. surprisingly fast for the time.
b. safer by road than by any other means.
c. slow by any of the means available.
d. so poor that no mail service was established until the 1800s.
e. fast only on the waterways.
The small-scale distribution of different tree species in a Douglas-fir forest is determined by both
Bull elk on a captive range in Nebraska.
Douglas Squirrel
Douglas Squirrel Anacortes Community Forest Lands (Washington)
“Bleeding Kansas”
A farm family in Custer, Nebraska, in 1888, a region where Populist sentiment was strong.