The line of the Missouri Compromise - North of that line, slavery was illegal. The Compromise of 1850 made some new provisions about the territories acquired from Mexico, but this did not secure lasting agreement. That was why Stephen Douglas proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, allowing the people of each new state to vote whether to be slave or free.
1854 = charge of the light brigade - are you dumb?
100,00o muskets in 1854.
In 1854 the Kansas Nebraska act replaced the 1859 Compromise. It gives the citizens of each territory, instead of Congress, permission to decide wether to allow slavery. Lincoln is strongly opposed to this act. -Answered by a 6th grade Hiland student.
23 october 1854
He proposed a bill that divided the land west of Missouri into two territories, Kansas and Nebraska.
Stephen Douglas
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
Stephen Douglas wanted the Kansas-Nebraska Act to pass in 1854 because resolving the debate about slavery would help railroads expand faster.
Stephen A. Douglas in 1854
Stephan A. Douglas proposed the Kansas Nebraska Act in 1854.
Congress. It was tabled by Stephen Douglas.
In 1854 , Senator Stephen A. Douglas prosposed a bill that would divide the Nebraska territory into two terriotories - Nebraska and Kansas .
Douglas was trying to work out a plan for the nation to expand that both the North and South would accept. This was the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. But the concept of popular sovereignty led to armed conflict over the issue of slavery in Kansas.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 was proposed by Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, in order to create the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, and to ensure that future settlers in those territories would have the authority to determine whether slavery would be permitted with these territories.
Douglas Dawson was born in 1854.
Stephen Geary died in 1854.