THE KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT
Key Figures:
-Steven A. Douglas - proposed this act because of personal and sectional reasons - wanted to help the South gain slave states and wanted to build a railroad in the North
Why did it happen?
-Controversy over the issue of slavery in Kansas and Nebraska
-After the Compromise of 1850 and California becomes a free state - political imbalance
What was it?
-Proposed that the inclusion of slavery in Kansas and Nebraska be determined by people living in territories – directly contradicts Henry Clay’s MISSOURI COMPROMISE – the states are north of the 36° 30’ line.
What did it lead into?
-North infuriated by the neglecting of the compromise.
-Hostility increases, explodes again, and results in the Republican Party
-Rise of purely sectional political parties – Republicans are northerners, Democrats are southerners
-Brought more tension/antagonism between North and South, led to creation of sectional political parties. Now the nation was seriously in danger of Civil War
-Steven A. Douglas - proposed this act because of personal and sectional reasons - wanted to help the South gain slave states and wanted to build a railroad in the North
Why did it happen?
-Controversy over the issue of slavery in Kansas and Nebraska
-After the Compromise of 1850 and California becomes a free state - political imbalance
What was it?
-Proposed that the inclusion of slavery in Kansas and Nebraska be determined by people living in territories – directly contradicts Henry Clay’s MISSOURI COMPROMISE – the states are north of the 36° 30’ line.
What did it lead into?
-North infuriated by the neglecting of the compromise.
-Hostility increases, explodes again, and results in the Republican Party
-Rise of purely sectional political parties – Republicans are northerners, Democrats are southerners
-Brought more tension/antagonism between North and South, led to creation of sectional political parties. Now the nation was seriously in danger of Civil War
THE KANSAS ELECTIONS
-States supporting and opposing slavery sent settlers into Kansas to gain votes for their cause
-Northerners and Southerners travelled to Kansas
-Settlers were financed by free-soilers and abolitionists
-South is angered, claiming that the purpose of the Kansas-Nebraska act was to help the sectional balance by making Kansas a slave state and Nebraska a free one.
-Continuing hostility between sections erupts into violence ...
-Northerners and Southerners travelled to Kansas
-Settlers were financed by free-soilers and abolitionists
-South is angered, claiming that the purpose of the Kansas-Nebraska act was to help the sectional balance by making Kansas a slave state and Nebraska a free one.
-Continuing hostility between sections erupts into violence ...