After all the accusations of vote-rigging, it eventually became clear that the people of Kansas wanted it to be free soil.
The violence and intimidation was a sign that the slavery question could not be settled without combat.
The attempt to allow the people of each new state to vote for or against slavery. This sounded reasonable enough, but the violence and intimidation towards voters demonstrated that the slavery question would never be settled except by war.
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The Free Soil Party
It gave high school teachers something to ask on exams.
The attempt to allow the people of each new state to vote for or against slavery. This sounded reasonable enough, but the violence and intimidation towards voters demonstrated that the slavery question would never be settled except by war.
Kansas had to governments because the antislavery settlers refused to accept the results of the vote and held a second election.
No, he was a powerful political machine in New York City.
No, he was a powerful political machine in New York City.
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Russell Scott Osborn was Secretary of State of Kansas from 1893-1895.
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The Republican Party
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.
It split the government in half. It created a definite line of north and south. It allowed Kansas to have slavery and Nebraska to have no slavery.
The Republican Party currently holds a majority of seats in both houses of the Kansas state legislature.