It led to violence the first time they tried local voting on the slavery issue.
That was in 'Bleeding Kansas', where the locals got a curtain-raiser of the upcoming civil war, when terrorists from both sides (including John Brown) entered the state to intimidate voters and cause mayhem.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act became a Law on March 30, 1854.
It upheld popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska
Franklin Pierce supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act which cancelled the Missouri Compromise leading to a new rise of the debate about the spread of slavery in the Western Territories. After the outbreak of the Civil War he declared support for the Confederacy.
Tennessee was the fist southern state to rejoin the Union after the Civil War. Nebraska was the first new state to enter the United States of America. It is number 37, joining on March 1st, 1867.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 resulted in armed conflict between pro-slavery people in Kansas and anti-slavery people there. The terms of Bleeding Kansas and Bloody Kansas in 1854 and the years prior to the US Civil War mean the same thing.
of course it did
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.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act became a Law on March 30, 1854.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act also led to "Bleeding Kansas," a mini civil war that erupted in Kansas in 1856. Northerners and Southerners flooded Kansas in 1854 and 1855, determined to convert the future state to their view on slavery.
the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
I. Passage of the Kansas- Nebraska Act a. This act allowed the Kansas and Nebraska territories to decide whether they wanted slavery or not with popular sovereignty b. This created a struggle between the pro slavery and abolitionists c. Fought over whether the state should be free or not
It upheld popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska
In 1854, Congress passed the Kansas Nebraska Act. This called for the two territories of Kansas & Nebraska to hold elections as to whether they wished to be "fee" States or "slave" States when they entered the Union. So beginning in 1854, pro slavers and abolitionists fought for supremacy in Kansas. In 1861, Kansas entered the Union as a free State. The new law made the Missouri Compromise of 1850 moot. As an aside, abolitionist James Brown, fought in the Kansas "civil war' before his adventure at the Federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry.
It kept both Kansas and Nebraska out of the Union until after the Civil War.
1854 : The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 was the third and last of the series of compromises enacted before the u.s. civil war in an attempt to resolve the question of whether slavery should be permitted in the western territories .
1854 : The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 was the third and last of the series of compromises enacted before the u.s. civil war in an attempt to resolve the question of whether slavery should be permitted in the western territories .
It allowed these two new states to vote on whether to be slave or free soil. But the voters were intimidated by outlaws from both sides, and this raised the whole temperature of the slavery debate.