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Kansas-Nebraska Act
No. It was after the Compromise of 1850 was failing to hold.
They were part of the Missouri Compromise. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands, repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and allowed settlers in those territories to determine if they would allow slavery within their boundaries.
Stephan A. Douglas proposed the Kansas Nebraska Act in 1854.
He called it Popular Sovereignty
'Popular Sovereignty' was the term coined by Stephen Douglas for a local vote on slavery in each new state as it joined the Union. It was the basis of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which was first tested - disastrously - when Kansas was admitted as free soil. This followed the unsuccessful Compromise of 1850, which did not involve Popular Sovereignty.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
popular sovereignty was an unworkable solution for the territories of Kansas and Nebraska
Allowing a local vote on the slavery question: 'Popular Sovereignty'
No. It was after the Compromise of 1850 was failing to hold.
The person that proposed the idea was Senator StephenA. Douglas. He wanted to abandon the MKissouri Compromise and let the settlers in each territory vote on whether to allow slavery.
It repealed the Missouri Compromise arrangement, and replaced it with 'Popular Sovereignty' - i.e. getting each new state to vote whether to be slave or free.
They were part of the Missouri Compromise. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands, repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and allowed settlers in those territories to determine if they would allow slavery within their boundaries.
Douglas wanted to abandon the Missouri Compromise because he wanted to put in place his own Kansas- Nebraska Act. This act would expand railroads and allow territories to choose for themselves if they wanted to be free or slave states.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850, specifically the provision that prohibited slavery in territories north of the 36°30’ parallel. Instead, the Act allowed for the potential expansion of slavery into those territories based on popular sovereignty.
He created it to turn the rest of the Louisiana Purchase into two territories-Kansas and Nebraska. This would remove the Missouri Compromise and the popular sovereignty (people that lived there) would choose whether or not to have slavery.