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How did the Kansas Nebraska Act either raise or reduce tensions over the slavery issue?
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∙ 12y ago
the Kansas Nebraska Act went against the Missouri compromise. it allowed states to choose there positions on slavery based on popular sovereignty. this threw off balance of free and slave states. the Missouri compromise was placed to keep this balance, especially in politics. the slaveholding south felt that the north was trying to gin political and territorial control over the union.
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∙ 14y agoThey thought it would reduce tensions by allowing the public to vote on the issue.
But it ended up raising tensions, because the voters were intimidated by terrorists.
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How did the Missouri Compromise either raise or reduce tensions over the slavery issue?
The Missouri Compromise was used to please both pro and anti-slavery people from the North and South with a regulation that prohibited slavery in some states and allowed it in other.
How did the Kansas Nebraska act affect slavery in the new territory?
It caused a mini cilvil war in Kansas from competing state governments. Free-soilers and proslavery settlers began to fight over land, towns, water, etc. and there was little law and order. As a result violence became a major problem, which caused Bleeding Kansas to occur and not be contained by federal or territorial authorities.
Did progressives help minorities?
No. They never have. From the Missouri Compromise, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the Civil War, The KKK during reconstruction, Jim Crow Laws after reconstruction, and opposing Kennedy & Johnson when they proposed Civil Rights legislation, the home of the so-called progressives - the Democrat Party - has been on the wrong side of the issue. Either by expanding slavery in the US, fighting a war against abolishing slavery, or keeping minorities from being able to vote, use the same businesses and mass transportation as the majority, etc. That is probably why Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican.
What parts of Kansas were union what part confederate?
It wasn't that way. A state was either Confederate or Union. When the war started in 1861 it was the newest state and had formally rejected slavery by popular vote and it fought with the Union. It was a frontier state at the time so no Confederate engagements took places there.
Was the south or north anti slavery?
There were northern states which were slave states prior to the war. To say either was "anti-slavery" kinda dumbs down the issue.
How did the Kansas Nebraska act lead to growing hostility between pro-slavery and anti slavery supporters?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act gave voters in those territories to either have their states be free of slavery or allow it. Kansas had a long border with slave state Missouri. There were strong feelings on each side of the slavery issue. Lack of law enforcement and high tensions among the people cause terrible violence to occur.
Civil war what was the Kansas-Nebraska act?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the US congress on May 30,1853. It stated that Kansas and Nebraska could either allow or not allow slavery within their borders.
What state is halfway between Ohio and Nevada?
Either Nebraska or Kansas
Who proposed the Kansas - Nebraska act of 1854?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 was proposed by Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, in order to create the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, and to ensure that future settlers in those territories would have the authority to determine whether slavery would be permitted with these territories.
Who chose between slavery or no slavery during the Kansas and Nebraska act?
Supposedly the citizens of Kansas, who would exercise their right to vote on the issue. But this thinly-populated territory was soon invaded by bully-boys from either side, who would buy cheap properties in order to vote - but also intimidated other citizens and clashed with each other, causing much bloodshed. (Hence 'Bleeding Kansas'.)
Did the kansas-nebraska act of 1854 permit slaves in either territories?
Yes, if the people of that state voted that way.
What abolitionist vowed to strike terror in the hearts of-pro slavery people?
The vicious murderer John Brown was a radical abolitionists from New England. He hated slavery as did most of the abolitionists. Most Americans did not favor slavery either, however, unlike Brown they would not become killers in order to end it. After the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed, the issue of slavery in the new US Territories, Kansas and Nebraska in particular, allowed for the citizens to vote on the issue of slavery before applying for statehood. In Kansas there was armed conflict between pro and anti-slavery people. John Brown and his sons travelled to Kansas to make a case for anti-slavery. They decided to kill any settlers there in favor of slavery. This they did in a horrible way. Somehow Brown and his sons escaped prosecution for their crimes. Their terrorist actions resurfaced in Harper's Ferry in Virginia in 1859. There Brown and his sons took over a federal arms depot and tried to start a slave rebellion. The goal was to free slaves and strike fear into the hearts of pro-slavery people. The rebellion failed and Brown was hanged for treason in 1859.
How did the Missouri Compromise either raise or reduce tensions over the slavery issue?
The Missouri Compromise was used to please both pro and anti-slavery people from the North and South with a regulation that prohibited slavery in some states and allowed it in other.
How did the Kansas Nebraska act affect slavery in the new territory?
It caused a mini cilvil war in Kansas from competing state governments. Free-soilers and proslavery settlers began to fight over land, towns, water, etc. and there was little law and order. As a result violence became a major problem, which caused Bleeding Kansas to occur and not be contained by federal or territorial authorities.
What happen to Kansas and Nebraska act?
When it was clear that the Compromise of 1850 had failed, the Kansas-Nebraska Act was introduced asan experiment in allowing the people of each new state to vote on whether it should be slave or free. It was tried in Kansas, and every bully-boy in America, from both sides of the debate, immediately headed for that thinly-populated territory, either to buy cheap property and qualify for the vote, or just to terrorise voters and get the results declared rigged. In the end, it turned out that the people of Kansas were voting to be free soil, but the bloodshed was so terrible, that the experiment was not tried in Nebraska, which did not enter the Union until after the 13th Amendment had been passed, and slavery outlawed.
Explain how and why bleeding Kansas became a dress rehearsal for the Civil War?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act provided for each new state to vote whether to be slave or free. When Kansas became the first state to vote, every bully-boy in America descended on Kansas, to intmidate the voters, either one way or the other. It was called 'Bleeding Kansas'.
How many soldiers died during bloody kansas?
Under the terms of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the voters were allowed to vote as to whether Kansas and Nebraska would enter the US as either free or slave States. There was bitter conflicts in Kansas over this issue and pro and antislavery forces fought as if in a war. The lost lives and wounded caused the term of Bloody Kansas to be used to describe what happened. Some called it Bleeding Kansas.
