Question

How did abolitionists react to the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

Answer 1

d. They claimed that it would lead to violence and suggested that anti-slavery settlers leave the area.

Answer 2

The correct answer is "A".

People who were "pro-abolitionists" started encouraging other citizens who thought this wat to move to Kansas in order to vote against slavery and make Kansas a slave-free state. This led to many conflicts between "pro" and "anti" abolitionist groups which were known as "bleeding Kansas".

Many see the controversy generated by the Kansas-Nebraska Act as the catalyst that led to the Civil War

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 a series of armed conflicts known as "Bleeding Kansas". The controversy surrounding the Kansas–Nebraska Act was a cause of the Civil War.