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Why did northerners head for Kansas After the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed?
they wanted to create a majority antislavery place
What were the 2 states that wanted to be admitted during the Kansas and Nebraska Act?
The Kansas and Nebraska Act, passed in 1854, allowed for the potential admission of two new states: Kansas and Nebraska. Both territories were seeking statehood, with Kansas eventually becoming a free state and Nebraska becoming a slave state. This provision, known as "popular sovereignty," led to increased tensions and the eventual outbreak of violence in Kansas over the issue of slavery.
What stated that the people in the territories could decide for themselves whether they wanted slavery?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Why did Stephen Douglas to propose organizing the region west of Missouri and Iowa as the territories of Kansas and Nebraska?
Stephen Douglas probably proposed such a plan mentioned above because of the concept of popular sovereignty where the people who reside in a territory that might become a state at a later date could decide for themselves whether they wanted slavery or not. This was 'democracy' in action that sounded good in theory but would have tragic consequences later when it was implemented in Kansas.
What caused Douglas to help pass the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
He thought he could stop the Southern states from seceding, if he could get Congress to allow the people of each new state to vote on the slavery question. It might have worked, if a lot of states were voting at the same time. But when it was tried, only in Kansas, that thinly-populated territory became a magnet for terrorists from both sides to intimidate voters. The result was called 'Bleeding Kansas'.
