Most people, North and South, were hoping that a future war could be avoided by this sensible arrangement of letting the local population of each new state vote whether to be slave or free. ('Popular Sovereignty')
But the result was a miniature Civil War in Kansas, with terrorists from outside the state intimidating voters and declaring every election result to be a fraud.
It was the tragic curtain-raiser for the real Civil War.
Southerners thought congress should protect their borders.
Kansas-Nebraska act
Southerners generally reacted to the Reconstruction Act of 1867 with resistance and hostility. Many white Southerners viewed the act as an imposition of Northern power and a violation of their rights, leading to widespread anger and the formation of groups like the Ku Klux Klan to oppose Reconstruction efforts. Additionally, there was significant pushback against the political enfranchisement of formerly enslaved people, as many white Southerners sought to regain control over their states and maintain white supremacy. Overall, the act deepened divisions and fueled resentment in the South.
Southerners wanted him to remove the Native Americans from the South
Because the southern states had rebelled against the USA.
Southerners thought congress should protect their borders.
Kansas-Nebraska act
so they wouldn't lose their dignity
Southerners had to accept that the blacks were no longer slaves and were in fact free. The American Civil war ended in 1865.
African Americans
They thought that granting popular sovereignty would allow slavery
I think that mostly the Southerners were totally for slavery.
We still hate him.
Cotton is more important than it
President Grant helped to pass The Enforcements Act to prevent Southerners from using fear to shut African Americans out of the political process.
They thought that granting popular sovereignty would allow slavery
I think, southerners call it tariff of abomination.