You could call it pro-slavery. It replaced the various compromises, and simply put the slavery question to the vote in each territory waiting to be admitted to the Union.
This was meant to appease the South, in order to keep them onside.
Fighting between proslavery and antislavery activists in Kansas
Fighting between proslavery and antislavery activists in Kansas
they wanted to create a majority antislavery place
Fighting between proslavery and antislavery activists in Kansas
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas
This Act set up Kansas and Nebraska as states. Each state would use popular sovereignty to decide what to do about slavery. People who were proslavery and antislavery moved to Kansas, but some antislavery settlers were against the Act. This began guerrilla warfare.
Bleeding Kansas
The most controversial aspect of the Kansas-Nebraska act was the doctrine of popular sovereignty, as this caused fighting between proslavery and antislavery forces over control of the territories.
bleeding Kansas > Apex. ;)
The Free Soil Party (which later became the Republican Party) .
It was a struggle between the ANTISLAVERY and the PROSLAVERY