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The incentive for the organization of the territory came from the need for a transcontinental railroad. After months of debate, the kansasnebraska act passed on may 30, 1854. In march 1854, just as debate over the kansasnebraska bill was intensifying in congress and amongst ordinary. This clip is part of cspan classrooms free resources for teachers and students. Northerners, the popular periodical godeys ladys book published a lengthy. The kansasnebraska act was an 1854 bill that mandated popular sovereignty allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state s borders. Tim rues talks about the effects of the kansasnebraska act. Allen white and his efforts to push the ku klux klan out of kansas in the. The south clamored for a more efficient fugitive slave law. Kansas, the series of violent political confrontations from 18541961. The kansasnebraska act of 1854 may have been the single most significant event leading to the civil war. In her first book, alice elizabeth malavasic argues that four southern senators who. This is a good and very detailed book about the events in kansas after the kansasnebraska act in 1854. The kansasnebraska act of 1854 was the third and last of the series of compromises enacted before the u.

In 1854 senator stephen douglas of illinois presented a bill destined to be one of the most consequential pieces of legislation in our national history. The kansasnebraska act, which was seen by northerners as a prosouthern act, was passed in 1854 and led to a rush of northern settlers in the kansas territory. But the failed promise of the kansasnebraska actwhen fraud in local elections subverted the settlers right to. Kansasnebraska act the kansasnebraska act, signed into law on may 30, 1854, by president franklin pierce, was closely related to national and sectional politics in the 1850s. In the kansasnebraska act, this would decide whether a territory allowed slavery.

The doctrine that stated that the people of a territory had the right to decide their own laws by voting. The nebraskakansas act of 1854 turns upside down the traditional way of thinking about one of the most important laws ever passed in american history. What were some negative effects of the kansasnebraska act. But now, just as the kansasnebraska act of 1854 broke through the slavestate limitation to the south, the democratic partys 2010 health care law has broken socialisms boundary of being so. The act that created nebraska and kansas also, in effect, abolished the missouri compromise, which had prohibited slavery in the region since 1820.

West the slavery men could push her boundary, the more slave country they secured. Peoria speech, october 16, 1854 lincoln home national historic. Get an answer for what were some negative effects of the kansasnebraska act. It was signed into law by president franklin pierce in 1854. Douglas, passed by the 33rd united states congress, and signed into law by president franklin pierce. Senator stephen douglas accomplished a bunch of noteworthy things during his life, but hes especially uberfamous for two of them. Proslavery and antislavery settlers rushed to kansas, each side hoping to determine. Was an act created in 1854, basically a band aid to address the slavery issue of allowing slavery in the new territories created which were kansas and nebraska. Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the united states of america in congress assembled, that all that part of the territory of the united states included within the following limits, except such portions thereof as are hereinafter. Kansasnebraska act 1854 an act to organize the territories of nebraska and kansas. The kansasnebraska act was an 1854 bill that allowed settlers of kansas and nebraska to decide whether slavery would be allowed within. A 1854 act to address slavery being allowed in kansas and nebraska. A moderate, who introduced the kansasnebraska act in 1854 and popularized the idea of popular sovereignty. Debra goodrich bisel talked about her book, the civil war in kansas.