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Kansas-Nebraska Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act
In 1854 , Senator Stephen A. Douglas prosposed a bill that would divide the Nebraska territory into two terriotories - Nebraska and Kansas .
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.
The issue of expansion of slavery was its expansion and growth into Western territories.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act
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the spread of slavery in the west
The Missouri compromises reserved the balance over the issue of slavery between the North and the South. This ended with the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act, which gave citizens in a territory the right to vote on the slavery issue.
The whigs and democrats would not take a strong stand about the slavery issue --1854
the right of new states to decide if they wanted slavery or not and a little fictional book called uncle toms cabin inflamed the slavery issue
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 called for the citizens of a territory to vote on the issue of slavery before they applied for statehood. The idea was termed popular sovereignty.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 opened these two territories for citizens to vote on the slavery issue. While all went well in Nebraska, pro and anti-slavery people had violent and deadly clashes over that issue.
Slavery in Massachusetts was created in 1854.
The Republican Party was formed at a convention in Michigan in July 1854 to fight the spread of slavery.
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