Leveled Readings / Kansas-Nebraska Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act
These are adaptations, not the original. The original wording is always shown first. Each adapted version restates the same passage at about a grade 4, grade 7, or grade 10 reading level without adding or removing ideas. Quote the original in student writing.
Original wording
“…it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way…”
Adapted · about grade 4
Congress will not force slavery into or out of a territory. The people there will decide.
Adapted · about grade 7
This act does not put slavery into or keep it out of any territory or state; the people there are free to decide for themselves.
Adapted · about grade 10
The intent of this act is neither to legislate slavery into any territory or state nor to exclude it, but to leave the people free to regulate their domestic institutions in their own way.
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