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The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 called for "popular sovereignty." The decision about slavery was to be made by the settlers in Kansas rather than by outsiders. The decision as to whether Kansas would become a free state or a slave state would be decided by the votes of people in Kansas. Whichever side had more votes counted by officials would decide if Kansas would become a free state or a slave state.
Battleground State Forest was created in 1963.
There was an issue over whether Missouri would become a slave or free state. It also raised the question of other new states being introduced into the United States. A compromise was made to allow Missouri to be admitted as a slave state and Kansas to be admitted as a free state.
He was a slave in a free state
President Pierce wanted Kansas to become a slave state, but Congress did not
they feared Texas would become another slave state
Kansas became a battleground for the issue of slavery due to the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 which allowed residents of the territories to decide whether they would allow slavery or not (popular sovereignty). This led to clashes between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers, known as "Bleeding Kansas," as both groups sought to influence the outcome of the territory's status as a free or slave state.
Kansas didn't become a slave-state. The issue was put to a local vote, and terrorists from both sides invaded the state to try to intimidate the voters. After much violence ("Bleeding Kansas"), it became clear that quite a big majority wanted it to be a free state. It was the South that was upset.
Virginia was the confederate state that was primarily the battleground in the civil war in the west. IMPROVEMENT. Tennessee was the primary battleground of the Civil War in the West.
The western expansion of slavery and the balance between slave and free states in the Senate
It made the issue even more prevalent. People had the decision to make a state free or a slave state.
It was delayed because the issue of Slavery and to balance whether it should be a free or slave state.