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Take a blank map of the United States. Make a color key. Color the map according to the following regions in the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.
Free States
Free Territory
Decision on Slavery left to the People of the Territory
Slave State
Slave Territory
Answer these questions:
- How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act change the Missouri Compromise?
- Compare the map you made in Lesson 1 to this map. What differences do you see? What slave states joined the Union between 1820 and 1854?
- Why did Lincoln oppose the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
- What territories did the Kansas-Nebraska Act open to slavery?
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