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Kansas-Nebraska Act

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Kansas-Nebraska Act bill that became law on May 30, 1854, by which the U.S. Congress established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. By 1854 the organization of the vast Platte and Kansas river countries W of Iowa and Missouri was overdue. As an isolated issue territorial organization of this area was no problem. It was, however, irrevocably bound to the bitter sectional controversy over the extension of slavery into the territories and was further complicated by conflict over the location of the projected transcontinental railroad . Under no circumstances did proslavery Congressmen w... Read more
Union in Crisis: The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Republican Party
Union in Crisis: The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Republican Party A...demanding the repeal of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Abraham Lincoln, who had...Round One. Opponents of the Kansas-Nebraska Act failed to prevent its passage... Read more
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) An Act of the US Congress concerning slavery. Following the MEXICAN-AMERICAN...states. This was contrary to the earlier MISSOURI COMPROMISE . The Act of 1854 declared that in Kansas and Nebraska a decision on slavery... Read more

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