novanet - It split Nebraska into 2 distinct territories: Nebraska and Kansas. :-] thats the correct answer
novanet - It split Nebraska into 2 distinct territories: Nebraska and Kansas. :-] thats the correct answer
novanet - It split Nebraska into 2 distinct territories: Nebraska and Kansas. :-] thats the correct answer
The name Lincoln for the state capital of Nebraska was chosen by the state legislature, to honor the late President Abraham Lincoln. A commission set up in 1867 chose the village of Lancaster to be the site of a newly-built capital city in the Nebraska Territory. The name Lincoln was originally an attempt to keep the state capital in Omaha, playing on the fact that many in southern Nebraska had sympathized with the Confederacy.
It was passed in the U.S. Congress in 1854. President Franklin Pierce signed the bill into law on May 30, 1854.
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.
no
they said it was illegal!
Stamp Act Congress
A well-meant attempt to put the slavery question to a local vote in each territory that came up for admission to the USA. The result was intimidation of voters by terrorists from both sides, and a miniature version of the upcoming Civil War.
congress tried to remedy the lack of a legal basis for its existance.
congress tried to remedy the lack of a legal basis for its existance.