0
Why did northerners and southerns go to Kansas after the Kansas-Nebraska act?
Wiki User
∙ 7y ago
So the region would become a slave-free state
Wiki User
∙ 12y ago
Wiki User
∙ 9y agothey wanted to create an antislavery majority there.
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
The allowed Southerners to take their slaves with them into Kansas and Nebraska.?
Kansas-Nebraska act
Why did northerners head for Kansas after the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
At best, to buy cheap properties there, in order to qualify as voters in this thinly-populated state, and swing the vote against slavery. At worst, to intimidate local citizens into voting against slavery, and to cause maximum disruption to the elections, declaring all ballots to be rigged.
What was the name given to Northerners who went to the south to carry out the Reconstruction Act?
Carpetbagger
How did the Northerners react to the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The Abolitionists thought it was terrible, because it could allow new slave-states. Other Northerners thought it was a reasonable solution to the slave-debate, but did not see the flaw - one state voting at a time would attract every bully-boy from both sides to intimidate voters. Hence 'Bleeding Kansas'.
When was Kansas settled?
Kansas was settled around 1850 with the Kansas-Nebraska Act. =)
Why did northerners dislike the Kansas Nebraska act?
.
Why did northerners dislike the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
.
Which statement best describes the reaction of Northerners to the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
They strongly disapproved of the act.
Why did northerners head for Kansas After the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed?
they wanted to create a majority antislavery place
What problem did some northerners have with the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
It violated the Missouri Compromise.
How did antislavery northerners hope to prevent slavery in Kansas?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of the U.S. Congress said voters in these territories to choose whether they would allow slavery or not. Thousands of antislavery northerners went into Kansas and voted to forbid slavery, then returned home.
How did the Kansas-Nebraska act lead to bleeding Kansas?
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.
Is it true that the fugitive slave act was enforced and respected by northerners because it held the union together and was part of the Kansas-Nebraska act?
False.
Why did the northerners oppose the kansas-nebraska act?
Because it could have allowed some new slave-states in the West.
Why did northerners head for Kansas after the signing of the Kansas- Nebraska act?
They got to choose whether the territory would have slavery by the way of popular sovereignty, which is the people get to have the choice.
Where did many northerners go to after the passage of the Kansas-nebraska act?
To Kansas, to buy cheap properties, so that they could register as voters, and try to get Kansas admitted to the USA as free soil under the Popular Sovereignty (local voting) principle.
What unintended effect did the fugitive slave act have on northerners?
northerners refused to listen to the law
