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Why were people going to kansas and nebraska territories after the Kansas-Nebraska act?
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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?
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?
What stated that the people in the territories could decide for themselves whether they wanted slavery?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
What did the kansas nebraska act do to sectionalism?
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.
Did the kansas-nebraska act of 1854 permit slaves in either territories?
Yes, if the people of that state voted that way.
Stephen Douglas proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854. This act opened the area of Kansas and Nebraska to which of the following people?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 opened these two territories for citizens to vote on the slavery issue. While all went well in Nebraska, pro and anti-slavery people had violent and deadly clashes over that issue.
What year did the Kansas-Nebraska take place?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was created in 1854. It created territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new land for settlement and allowed white male settlers in those territories to determine whether slavery would be allowed.
Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This Act set up Kansas and Nebraska as states. Each state would use popular sovereignty to decide what to do about slavery. People who were proslavery and antislavery moved to Kansas, but some antislavery settlers were against the Act. This began guerrilla warfare.
What was the 1854 Congress passed Kansas Nebraska act?
i didnt know they had one O_o ? unlike the retard ahead of me ill tell you what it is.. the Kansas Nebraska act was a plan that would divide the remainder if the Louisiana purchase into 2 territories Kansas and Nebraska and allow the people in each territory to divide on the question of slavery
Why did Stephen Douglas support the kansas-nebraska act?
He created it to turn the rest of the Louisiana Purchase into two territories-Kansas and Nebraska. This would remove the Missouri Compromise and the popular sovereignty (people that lived there) would choose whether or not to have slavery.
What two states wanted to be addmitted into the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was concerned with the admission of the Kansas and Nebraska territories into the USA. Since the two sections could not agree whether these future states should be slave or free, Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois suggested that the people of each state should vote on it. The result was Bleeding Kansas.
What was the significance of the kansas-nebraska act?
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.
Who proposed Kansas Nebraska act?
Stephan A. Douglas proposed the Kansas Nebraska Act in 1854.
