Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 in hopes of
a. increasing the number of slave states.
b. increasing the number of free states.
c. quelling Northern fears of new slave states being admitted into the Union.
d. quelling Southern fears of new free states being admitted into the Union.
e. ending South Carolinas threats of secession.
Question 2
What was the effect of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?
a. South Carolina called for immediate secession.
b. It cemented the celebrity of its author, Abraham Lincoln.
c. It effectively repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
d. It placed the nation on track for emancipation within five years.
e. It tipped the balance of free and slave states toward freedom.
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