They opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act because they were against the expansion of slavery into new states.
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 called for the citizens of the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to vote as to whether they would become free states or slave states. There was a severe conflict in Kansas between the two sides which resulted in bloodshed. This was the reason for the phrase "Bleeding Kansas".
Fighting between proslavery and antislavery activists in Kansas
Fighting between proslavery and antislavery activists in Kansas
Fighting between proslavery and antislavery activists in Kansas
Kansas-Nebraska act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was a law passed by Congress in 1854, which divided the states of Missouri and Iowa, and the territory of Minnesota into two new territories, Kansas and Nebraska. It resulted to violence between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers.
Kansas and Nebraska were created after the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. The reason for this Act was to open new farmland and create a Transcontinental Railroad.
Kansas Nebraska Act
The Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854 negated the 1850 Missouri Compromise. The most disturbing result of this legislation was a bloody conflict in Kansas between pro slavery people and anti slavery people.
Stephan A. Douglas proposed the Kansas Nebraska Act in 1854.
The US got Nebraska during the Kansas-Nebraska act in 1854.
Congress allowed Kansas and Nebraska to determine for themselves whether they would be slave states or free states. It was called popular sovereignty.