Daily Quiz for August 10, 2008

Settlement of anti-slavery groups in Kansas. The Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Society, founded by Eli Thayer of Worcester, Massachusetts in 1854, promoted the settlement of anti-slavery groups in Kansas, with the ultimate objective of making it a free state. Adhering to the cause of &#171popular sovereignty,» the organization?which was reincorporated in February, 1855 as the New England Emigrant Aid Company?founded the town of Lawrence and other Free State communities. Active into 1857, it helped settle some 2,000 people in Kansas.