Potentially all the new states in the West - subject to a popular vote within each state.
It allowed for the creation of new slave-states, if the locals voted for it.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act.
The Kansas Nebraska Act reopened argument over the spread of slavery into territories of the Louisiana Purchase.
In 1854 The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed and created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. It also opened up new lands, allowed the Missouri Compromise of 1820 to be repealed, and allowed people who were settled in those areas to determine if they would allow slavery within their boundaries. Also, it was intended to open the opportunity for a Mideastern Transcontinental Railroad.
The Louisiana Purchase and Mexican American War certainly escalated tensions over slavery. For one, slave holders felt it was okay to expand slavery and their products and services into newly acquired land and territories. This was strongly opposed by early abolitionists that did not want the immoral act of slavery plaguing the new territories.
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.
potentially all the new states in the west
potentially all the new states in the west
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act.
It said were slavery was allowed in territories.
The Kansas Nebraska Act reopened argument over the spread of slavery into territories of the Louisiana Purchase.
Abraham Lincoln won the election of 1860 with a platform against slavery in the territories but for tariffs a transcontinental railroad and a Homestead Act.
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?
Pro-slavery and Anti-slavery
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 proposed allowing the residents of these territories to decide for themselves whether to allow slavery through popular sovereignty. This effectively repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which had prohibited slavery in these territories. The act ultimately sparked violent conflicts and furthered tensions between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States.
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.