An attempt to allow the citizens of Kansas to vote whether it should be a slave-state or free soil.
It was an invitation to every bully-boy in America (from both sides) to invade the territory and intimidate voters.
They opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act because they were against the expansion of slavery into new states.
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 called for the citizens of the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to vote as to whether they would become free states or slave states. There was a severe conflict in Kansas between the two sides which resulted in bloodshed. This was the reason for the phrase "Bleeding Kansas".
Fighting between proslavery and antislavery activists in Kansas
Fighting between proslavery and antislavery activists in Kansas
Fighting between proslavery and antislavery activists in Kansas
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.
Kansas-Nebraska act
Topeka, the capital city of Kansas, is located on the Kansas River.
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.
The Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854 negated the 1850 Missouri Compromise. The most disturbing result of this legislation was a bloody conflict in Kansas between pro slavery people and anti slavery people.
Kansas and Nebraska were created after the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. The reason for this Act was to open new farmland and create a Transcontinental Railroad.
Kansas Nebraska Act
Congress allowed Kansas and Nebraska to determine for themselves whether they would be slave states or free states. It was called popular sovereignty.