Why Did Abolitionists get upset about the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

Answer 1

created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing settlers in those territories to determine through Popular Sovereignty if they would allow slavery within each territory.

Answer 2

He created it to turn the rest of the Louisiana Purchase into two territories-Kansas and Nebraska. This would remove the Missouri Compromise and the popular sovereignty (people that lived there) would choose whether or not to have slavery.

Answer 3

Many Northerners who were against slavery did not believe the Kansas - Nebraska Act was a wise one. Under it, the citizens who lived there could vote on whether to legalize slavery or not. In Kansas, the conflict between pro & anti slavery groups resulted in violence & deaths.

Answer 4

Senator Stephen A. Douglas supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act because he was the one who proposed it. Douglas had the firm belief that whether a state would be a free state or a slave state was up to the voters. The position of Douglas was called popular sovereignty.

Answer 5

He was trying to keep slavery from spreading.