No.
By allowing one state at a time to vote on the slavery question, it attracted every terrorist on both sides to invade that one state and cause mayhem.
It showed that its sponsor, Stephen Douglas, was really a talker, not a thinker.
the Nebraska territory would open up and be divided into 2 states: nebraska and Kansas. originally, nebraska would have been the free state and kansas the slave state BUT nebraska and kansas would be decided by popular sovereignty
They thought that granting popular sovereignty would allow slavery
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.
the nebraska territory would open up and be divided into 2 states: nebraska and kansas. originally, nebraska would have been the free state and kansas the slave state BUT nebraska and kansas would be decided by popular sovereignty
Yes. He introduced it.
Kansas-Nebraska Act A+ answer
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?
Kansas-Nebraska act
One way to complete the sentence would be: Corn is to Nebraska as wheat is to Kansas. The reason is that agriculturally, corn is the main crop grown in Nebraska, and wheat is the main crop grown in Kansas.
In 1854 , Senator Stephen A. Douglas prosposed a bill that would divide the Nebraska territory into two terriotories - Nebraska and Kansas .
Nebraska had less problems than Kansas so Nebraska is a better state
The Missouri Compromise was effectively ended by the Kansas-Nebraska Act, however since there was still turmoil as to the "Bleeding Kansas" dispute, it was thought that the Kansas-Nebraska Act would be shortly overturned. The Dred Scott decision by the Supreme Court further strengthened the elimination of the Missouri Compromise and the institution of slavery north of the Mason-Dixon Line by ruling that slaves were not able to take cases to court.