The main effect of Legalism in Qin China, 221 - 206 BCE, was to create strict rules and harsh punishments to those who disobey the rules, as well as rewards for those who carefully observed the law.
This is because after the Warring States period, Qin rulers admired the philosophy of legalism, which aims to strict obedience to law, as opposite to confucianism and daoism, which believed on softer ways to rule and obey the law, so, in consequence, they adopted this philosophy.
Correct answer: C. It opened slavery in territories that many had thought would stay free.
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.
