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How was the issue of slavery to be decide in Nebraska and Kansas?
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Alyce Corkery
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∙ 12y agoIn 1854 , Senator Stephen A. Douglas prosposed a bill that would divide the Nebraska territory into two terriotories - Nebraska and Kansas .
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∙ 11y agoPro-slavery settlers fought against anti-slavery settlers.
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What were the events in May 1856 that inflamed the slavery issue?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
What were the 2 states that wanted to be admitted during the Kansas and Nebraska Act?
The Kansas and Nebraska Act, passed in 1854, allowed for the potential admission of two new states: Kansas and Nebraska. Both territories were seeking statehood, with Kansas eventually becoming a free state and Nebraska becoming a slave state. This provision, known as "popular sovereignty," led to increased tensions and the eventual outbreak of violence in Kansas over the issue of slavery.
What decision promoted by Stephen Douglas made popular sovereignty a national policy for dealing with slavery?
Illinois Senator Stephen A. Douglas was a leading Democrat in the US. He sought to solve the slavery issue by having the citizens of a US Territory, vote on the slavery issue. Then when the Territory applied for statehood, the slavery issue would have already been decided.This was a sane measure, however, there was a lack of law and order in Kansas at the time of 1854. The result was chaos and murder in Kansas.
In 1854 the issue of slavory as inflamed by which event?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Because of violent struggles over the issue of slavery what was the nickname for Kansas Territory?
Bleeding Kansas
What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act call for?
It called for the residents of Kansas and Nebraska vote to decide the issue of slavery.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide the issue of slavery by popular sovereignty. The people who lived in these territories would be able to vote on whether?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide the issue of slavery by popular sovereignty. The people who lived in these territories would be able to vote on whether slavery would be allowed there. What effect did this have on Kansas?
Congress decided to let the citizens decide the issue of slavery in the states of?
Kansas and Nebraska
What act led to popular sovereignty to decide the issue of slavery in the new territories?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act.
When people vote directly on the issue of slavery that is called?
There was a vote for slavery with the Kansas Nebraska Act. The states held an election to decide if they would come in free or slave.
What would not be considered an old solution to the slavery issue in the mid-1850s?
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How was the issue of slavery to be in Nebraska and Kansas?
Pro-slavery settlers fought against anti-slavery settlers.
What were the events in May 1856 that inflamed the slavery issue?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
In 1854 Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act which would allow the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide on the issue of slavery by popular sovereignty. Dougla?
the construction of a transcontinental railroad that would start in Chicago, Illinois
What federal law allow people within a territory to decide the issue of slavery?
Popular Sovereignty is the term used to describe states deciding the issue of slavery for themselves when becoming part of the Union. It was a part of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What would not be considered an old solution to the slavery issue in 1850?
Kansas-Nebraska Act A+ answer
Would not be considered an old solution to the slavery issue in the mid?
Kansas-Nebraska Act A+ answer
