By local vote (optimistically termed 'Popular Sovereignty').
This backfired - terrorists from both sides invaded the state of Kansas to intimidate voters and declare all results to be rigged.
It was like a miniature version of the forthcoming Civil War. It seemed to demonstrate that civil war was inevitable.
Kansas and Nebraska
Nebraska Territory and Kansas Territory or you could just look in a textbook
The Kansas-Nebraska Act.
The Kansas Nebraska Act reopened argument over the spread of slavery into territories of the Louisiana Purchase.
In 1854, Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois proposed a bill to organize the Territory of Nebraska, a vast area of land that would become Kansas, Nebraska, Montana and the Dakotas. Known as the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the controversial bill raised the possibility that slavery could be extended into territories where it had once been banned.
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?
The Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854 enabled voters in the US Territories of Kansas and Nebraska vote as to whether be free or slave States once they entered the Union.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was a law passed by Congress in 1854, which divided the states of Missouri and Iowa, and the territory of Minnesota into two new territories, Kansas and Nebraska. It resulted to violence between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers.
It said were slavery was allowed in territories.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of May 30th 1854, created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands, and allowed settlers in those territories to determine if they would allow slavery within their boundaries.
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Kansas and Nebraska
It created the Nebraska and Kansas territories. Repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820. Allowed settlers to determine if they wanted slavery or not.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed settlers in those territories to decide whether or not to permit slavery through popular sovereignty, overturning the Missouri Compromise's restriction on slavery in certain territories. This led to violent conflicts between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers in Kansas, known as "Bleeding Kansas."
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 allowed the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to determine whether they would allow slavery based on popular sovereignty. This contradicted the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which had prohibited slavery in this region. The Act ultimately led to violent clashes between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces in Kansas, known as "Bleeding Kansas."
potentially all the new states in the west
The Kansas-Nebraska Act