The Kansas - Nebraska Act created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. It also allowed white men in these territories to decide whether or not they would allow slavery.
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.
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Many people were enraged at the Kansas-Nebraska act because it did away with the Missouri Compromise. The Kansas-Nebraska act was enacted in 1854.
on 30 may 1854
The Kansas--Nebraska Act of 1854 allowed the new territories to decide for themselves if they would allow slavery or not.See the Related Link for more information.
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.
the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Fighting between proslavery and antislavery activists in Kansas
Fighting between proslavery and antislavery activists in Kansas
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas
Kansas-Nebraska act
bleeding Kansas > Apex. ;)
By the passage of the Kansas - Nebraska Act. He then decided to return to politics.
Respectively, Henry Clay and Stephen Douglas.
The passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act by the US Congress, ended the goal of the Missouri Compromise of 1850. Since the people in US territories were allowed to vote on whether their state would be a slave state or a free state, there were conflicts. The Kansas-Nebraska Act brought into play the concept of popular sovereignty. The most notable consequence of the Act was a bloody conflict between pro-slavery and anti-slavery people in Kansas. Thus the term "bleeding Kansas.