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.
So the region would become a slave-free state
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'.
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Kansas was settled around 1850 with the Kansas-Nebraska Act. =)
they wanted to create a majority antislavery place
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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.
They strongly disapproved of the act.
It violated the Missouri Compromise.
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.
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.
Yes, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was enforced and respected by some northerners in order to uphold the Union. It was part of the Compromise of 1850 that aimed to maintain peace between the North and the South by addressing issues related to slavery. However, the Act also heightened tensions between the two regions and was one of the factors that eventually led to the Civil War. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which allowed for popular sovereignty in the territories and led to "Bleeding Kansas," was a separate piece of legislation that further exacerbated tensions over slavery.
Because it could have allowed some new slave-states in the West.
So the region would become a slave-free state
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.