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1.kansas-Nebraska act (1854)-opened up thousands of new farms and made feasible a Midwestern transcontinental railroad. The popular sovereignty clause of the law led pro- and anti-slavery elements to flood into Kansas with the goal of voting slavery up or down, resulting in Bleeding Kansas.
2.popular sovereignty-the principle that the authority of a state and its government is created and sustained by the consent of its people who are the source of all political power. It expresses a concept and does not necessarily reflect or describe a political reality.
3.underground railroad- a network of secret routes and safe houses used by african Americans in the United States in efforts to escape to free states. term is also applied to the abolitionists, both black and white, free and enslaved, who aided the fugitives.
4.bledding Kansas- a series of violent political confrontations in the U.s involving free staters and pro-slavery. The Kansas-Nebraska act of 1854 called for popular sovereignty that is, the decision about slavery was to be made by the settlers rather than outsiders.
2.popular sovereignty-the principle that the authority of a state and its government is created and sustained by the consent of its people who are the source of all political power. It expresses a concept and does not necessarily reflect or describe a political reality.
3.underground railroad- a network of secret routes and safe houses used by african Americans in the United States in efforts to escape to free states. term is also applied to the abolitionists, both black and white, free and enslaved, who aided the fugitives.
4.bledding Kansas- a series of violent political confrontations in the U.s involving free staters and pro-slavery. The Kansas-Nebraska act of 1854 called for popular sovereignty that is, the decision about slavery was to be made by the settlers rather than outsiders.