Question

After the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed, Northerners headed for Kansas because.. A. The Climate and rich soil promised better farming than the North could offer. . B. They wanted to create an antislavery majority there.. C. Jobs working on the transcontintental railroad were available there. . D. Southern immigrants there were campaigning to secede from the Union.

Answer 1

The Northerners headed for Kansas after the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed because they wanted to create an antislavery majority there. The correct answer will be B.

Answer 2

Correct answer: B. They wanted to create an anti-slavery majority there.

Explanation:

The Kansas-Nebraska Act was enacted by Congress in 1854. It granted popular sovereignty to the people in the Kansas and Nebraska territories, letting them decide whether they'd allow slavery.  In essence, this made the Kansas-Nebraska act a repeal of the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which had said there would be no slavery north of latitude 36°30´ except for Missouri.

After the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers rushed into Kansas to try to sway the outcome of the issue, and violence between the two sides occurred.  The term "bleeding Kansas" was used because of the bloodshed.  Kansas and Nebraska ended up as free states, but the Kansas-Nebraska Act had allowed the possibility that slavery could become slave states.