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	Kansas-Nebraska Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Results of the Kansas-Nebraska Act were numerous and for the most part damaging to the country.
		Nebraska was admitted to the Union as a state after the Civil War in 1867.
		The Senate approved the admission of Kansas as a state under the Lecompton constitution, despite the opposition of Senator Douglas, who believed that the Kansan referendum on the Constitution, by failing to offer the alternative of prohibiting slavery, was unfair.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kansas-Nebraska_Act (833 words)

	Kansas - Nebraska Act
		The Kansas-Nebraska Act flatly contradicted the provisions of the Missouri Compromise (under which slavery would have been barred from both territories); indeed, an amendment was added specifically repealing that compromise.
		Kansas - Nebraska 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.
	www.holton.k12.ks.us /staff/abeam/ah/9900/out/out3/ks-nebact.html (464 words)

	Kansas-Nebraska Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Kansas–Nebraska Act was a United States federal law passed on May 30, 1854, organizing a territorial government for the lands that later became the states of Kansas and Nebraska.
		The act divided the region into the Kansas Territory (south of the 40th parallel) and the Nebraska Territory (north of the 40th parallel).
		Results of the Kansas-Nebraska Act were numerous and, most historians agree, sped up the coming of the Civil War.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kansas-Nebraska_Bill_of_1854 (1205 words)

	Bleeding Kansas
		With the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act on May 30, 1854, the stage was set for murderous mob rule in the territory of Kansas.
		Repealing the demarcation line between slave and free territory established by the Missouri Compromise, the Kansas-Nebraska Act declared that the question of whether slavery would be allowed in a new state would be determined by popular sovereignty- the vote of the settlers of the territory.
		Kansas was a powder keg that exploded into a bloody civil war, characterized by lynching, bushwhacking, and burning- a continuous stream of violence that could not be contained by federal or territorial authorities.
	civilwar.bluegrass.net /secessioncrisis/bleedingkansas.html (314 words)

	Kansas and Kansans Ch. 17 Pt. 1
		Thayer connected his company with Kansas for the reason that Kansas was already the spot-light of America, because of the interest aroused by the debates in Congress on the Kansas-Nebraska bill, the discussion of the bill and the debates in the newspapers, and the repeal of the Missouri Compromise.
		Situated as Kansas was, slavery never had the ghost of a show to impose itself on her institutions.
		Kansas was much more accessible from that country north of the Ohio River, and its line extended westward, than it was from the South.
	skyways.lib.ks.us /kansas/genweb/archives/1918ks/v1/ch17p1.html (3986 words)

	Kansas-Nebraska Act - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Kansas-Nebraska Act
		The Kansas-Nebraska Act helped to start the Civil War, and caused the rise of the Republican Party, which was dedicated to prohibiting slavery in the new territories.
		By allowing the settlers in the territories to decide for themselves whether or not to permit slavery, the act upset the political balance between North and South established in 1820 by the Missouri Compromise.
		After the act went into effect, slavery supporters from Missouri and antislavery settlers from the North poured into Kansas to try to determine the first election and laws on slavery.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Kansas-Nebraska%20Act (330 words)

	Kansas Nebraska Act
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	Kansas-Nebraska Act
		Kansas and Nebraska were important areas for growing wheat, corn, oats and rye and were therefore popular places for migrants from the eastern areas of American to settle.
		The principal article of fuel found on the frontier for cooking the meat of the buffalo was the dried excrement of the animal, known in early Kansas and Nebraska parlance as "buffalo chips." The buffalo was one of the noblest of all animals.
		Frederick Douglass warned that the bill was "an open invitation to a fierce and bitter strife".
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USASkansas.htm (1647 words)

	Wyandotte County, Kansas History - Ch. XIII, pt. 1
		But before the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska act (at first the act was in common talk called the "Nebraska bill, " although Kansas was the real issue) there had been "movements" for a territorial organization.
		Soon after they came to Kansas, efforts were made in congress to organize the Nebraska territory, which embraced in its limits the present state of Kansas and Nebraska.
		These movements had the effect of advancing the cause of territorial government for Kansas and on May 26, 1854, ten months after the convention in Wyandotte, came the announcement that the United States senate at Washington had passed the Kansas-Nebraska bill at 1:15 in the morning.
	skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/archives/wyandott/history/1911/volume1/129.html (2248 words)

	Page 407. Lincoln, Abraham. 1897. Political Debates Between Lincoln and Douglas
		In the Kansas-Nebraska bill you find it declared to be the true intent and meaning of the Act not to legislate slavery into any State or Territory, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way.
		It has occurred to me that in 1854 the author of the Kansas and Nebraska bill was considered a pretty good Democrat.
		In 1854, when it became necessary to organize the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska, I brought forward the bill on the same principle.
	www.bartleby.com /251/pages/page407.html (346 words)

	Page 382. Lincoln, Abraham. 1897. Political Debates Between Lincoln and Douglas
		The Kansas-Nebraska bill being upon its passage, he said:—
		It is only for the purpose of carrying out this great fundamental principle of self-government that the bill renders the eighth section of the Missouri Act inoperative and void.
		The principle which we propose to carry into effect by this bill is this: That Congress shall neither legislate slavery into any Territory or State, nor out of the same; but the people shall be left free to regulate their domestic concerns in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States.
	www.bartleby.com /251/pages/page382.html (431 words)

	Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.2, Entry 227, KANSAS-NEBRASKA BILL: Library of Economics and Liberty
		Douglas at once had the bill recommitted, and, Jan. 23, he reported, in its final shape, the Kansas-Nebraska bill, which, in its ultimate and unexpected consequences, was one of the most far-reaching legislative acts in American history.
		May 30, the Kansas Nebraska bill was approved by the president, and became law.
		—The bill divided the territory from latitude 37° to latitude 43° 30' into two territories, the southern to be called Kansas, and the northern Nebraska; the territory between latitude 36° 30' and 37° was now left to the Indians.
	www.econlib.org /library/YPDBooks/Lalor/llCy618.html (1015 words)

	Kansas Territorial Sesquicentennial Commission, Bibliography - Complete
		Kansas “historians” had debated the relative significance of the New England Emigrant Aid Company in making Kansas free for years; Johnson concludes that it was of great importance, if not a deciding factor, in the struggle.
		Despite the peculiar problems facing the first Kansas lawmakers (e.g., slavery and land titles), territorial legislators “followed the established practice of copying the laws from areas which had already achieved statehood” and “no effort was made to design a tax system” suited for the territory’s unique circumstances.
		Gates examines “the struggle for possession of the Christian [or Munsee] Indian tract” in northeastern Kansas, complicated by the fact that none of land was part of the public domain or legally available for settlement when white “squatter” onslaught began in 1854.
	www.kshs.org /sesquicentennial/bibliography/bibliography_complete.htm (11702 words)

	kansasneb.htm
		And Be it further enacted, That the executive power and authority in and over said Territory of Nebraska shall be vested in a Governor who shall hold his office for four years, and until his successor shall be appointed and qualif ied, unless sooner removed by the President of the United States.
		Kansas - Nebraska Act 1854 An Act to Organize the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas
		And be it further enacted, That all township, district, and county officers, not herein otherwise provided for, shall be appointed or elected, as the case may be, in such manner as shall be provided by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Nebraska.
	www.etsu.edu /cas/history/docs/kansasneb.htm (1705 words)

	Kansas-Nebraska Act: Primary Documents of American History (Virtual Programs & Services, Library of Congress)
		The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise, allowing slavery in the territory north of the 36° 30´ latitude.
		Introduced by Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois, the Kansas-Nebraska Act stipulated that the issue of slavery would be decided by the residents of each territory, a concept known as popular sovereignty.
		On May 22, 1854, the House of Representatives passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act by a vote of 113 to 100.
	www.loc.gov /rr/program/bib/ourdocs/kansas.html (498 words)

	Getting the Message Out! Pivotal Events: The Kansas-Nebraska Act
		The Kansas-Nebraska Act is arguably the most consequential piece of legislation ever enacted by Congress.
		Indeed, the language of the act was even more explicit than the earlier legislation had been that it was the residents of the territories themselves who would make the decision on slavery.
		It ignited four years of turmoil between northern and southern settlers in Kansas that made "Bleeding Kansas" an issue in the 1856 election and disrupted the Democratic party during James Buchanan's subsequent presidential administration.
	dig.lib.niu.edu /message/ps-kansasnebraska.html (430 words)

	Today in History: January 29
		In 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed the residents to decide if theirs would be a free or slave state.
		To limit the search to Kansas and not Missouri, search across the collections or in any individual American Memory collection using the special command #bandnot (Kansas Missouri), entered exactly as it is written here.
		A fairly continuous plain, Kansas rises in elevation from 700 feet in the southeast to 4,000 feet at its western border.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/jan29.html (710 words)

	Territorial Kansas Online - Bibliography - Kansas Nebraska Act
		“The Natural Limits of Slavery Expansion: Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854.&; Kansas Historical Quarterly 34 (Spring 1968): 32-50.
		That portion of the “Indian County” destined to become the territories of Nebraska and Kansas on May 30, 1854, was first call just “Nebraska,” and, according to Professor Malin, “the original focus on Nebraska, the Platte Valley, and the Pacific railroad, was lost in the controversy over slavery.&;
		While reflecting Malin’s “needless war” revisionism, this article focuses on issues and individuals involved in the pre-Douglas (Kansas-Nebraska) bill efforts to covertly make all of Nebraska Territory a slave state.
	www.territorialkansasonline.org /cgiwrap/imlskto/index.php?SCREEN=bibliography/kansas_nebraska_act (1891 words)

	Kansas-Nebraska Act
		The Kansas-Nebraska Act, signed into law on May 30, 1854, by President Franklin Pierce, was closely related to national and sectional politics in the 1850s.
		Southern politicians, cool about the organization of Nebraska for railroad purposes, were hostile to the admission of another free state into the union.
		By the terms of the Missouri Compromise of 1820, slavery was prohibited in the area where Nebraska would be formed.
	www.nebraskahistory.org /publish/publicat/timeline/kansas-nebraska_act.htm (345 words)

	From Revolution to Reconstruction: Essays: Politics and Sectionalism in the 1850s: The Kansas-Nebraska Act (3/5)
		The Kansas-Nebraska act was debated and eventually did become law in May 1854; it had an immediate impact on the political landscape.
		Kansas, the new region, would try to become a slave state while Nebraska would likely attract free-soilers.
		Allowing the people of the territories, not their legislatures, to decide their status through referendum, or what came to be known as popular sovereignty (vox populi).
	odur.let.rug.nl /~usa/E/1850s/poli3.htm (429 words)

	Kansas-Nebraska Act
		Kansas and Nebraska were important areas for growing wheat, corn, oats and rye and were therefore popular places for migrants from the eastern areas of American to settle.
		The principal article of fuel found on the frontier for cooking the meat of the buffalo was the dried excrement of the animal, known in early Kansas and Nebraska parlance as "buffalo chips." The buffalo was one of the noblest of all animals.
		The pioneers of Kansas, particularly a number who settled on the frontier - along the upper valleys of the Smoky Hill, Republican, Solomon, and Saline rivers - practically owed their lives to the existence of the buffalo.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USASkansas.htm (1647 words)

	The Kansas-Nebraska Act
		Passed by Congress in 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act has been called the most momentous piece of legislation in the United States before the American Civil War.
		Ministers preached against the "Nebraska iniquity," and Douglas was accused of weakly yielding to the South in the hope of winning the presidency.
		Congress refused to recognize the constitution adopted by such methods as legal, and Kansas was forced to remain a territory.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/1952/kansas.html (446 words)

	Bleeding Kansas
		The bill proposed organizing the Nebraska territory, which also included an area that would become the state of Kansas.
		Nebraska was so far north that its future as a free state was never in question.
		Rumors had spread through the South that 20,000 Northerners were descending on Kansas, and in November 1854, thousands of armed Southerners, mostly from Missouri, poured over the line to vote for a proslavery congressional delegate.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/aia/part4/4p2952.html (1284 words)

	War between the States - The Kansas-Nebraska Act
		After the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed, pro-slavery and anti-slavery supporters rushed in to settle Kansas to affect the outcome of the first election held there after the law went into effect.
		The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854.
		War between the States - The Kansas-Nebraska Act
	www.electricscotland.com /history/america/civilwar/cw10.htm (283 words)

	Furman: Nebraska Bill, Address to the People (NYT, 24 Jan. 1854)
		Out of it sprung the acts of Congress, commonly known as the Compromise measures of 1850, by one of which California was admitted as a free State; while two others, organizing the Territories of New Mexico and Utah, exposed all the residue of the recently acquired territory to the invasion of slavery.
		It is said that the Territory of Nebraska sustains the same relations to slavery as did the Territory acquired from Mexico prior to 1850, and that the pro-slavery clauses of the bill are necessary to carry into effect the compromises of that year.
		The same act -- let it be ever remembered -- which authorized the formation of a constitution for that State, without a clause forbidding Slavery, consecrated, beyond question and beyond honest recall, the whole remainder of the Territory to Freedom and Free Institutions, forever.
	www.furman.edu /~benson/docs/appeal.htm (2464 words)

	Lincoln/Net: The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Rise of the Republican Party, 1854-1856
		In that act Illinois' Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas had attempted to organize the vast Nebraska territory for settlement and the passage of a transcontinental railroad.
		These disparate political groups were united in a common distaste for the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
		Douglas framed the bill with the idea that the people of Nebraska and Kansas should decide for themselves whether they wished to permit slavery, a doctrine he called "popular sovereignty." He hoped that local control could remove slavery from the national political stage, where it had become a disruptive issue.
	lincoln.lib.niu.edu /biography6text.html (1100 words)

	Kansas-Nebraska Act - MSN Encarta
		Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), U.S. law authorizing the creation of Kansas and Nebraska, west of the states of Missouri and Iowa and divided by the 40th parallel.
		It repealed a provision of the Missouri Compromise (1820) that had prohibited slavery in the territories north of 36° 30', and stipulated that the inhabitants of the territories should decide for themselves the legality of slaveholding.
		The passage of the act caused a realignment of the major U.S. political parties and greatly increased tension between North and South in the years before the American Civil War.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761569036/Kansas-Nebraska_Act.html (327 words)

	Kansas Nebraska Act, 1854
		The 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act, which spawned "Bleeding Kansas," was another dramatic episode in the struggle between pro- and antislavery advocates.
		Ushered through Congress by Illinois Senator Stephen Douglass, the Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which drew the regional line between free and slave states.
		This act permitted the people of each territory to decide the slave issue for themselves.
	www.classbrain.com /artteenst/publish/article_89.shtml (130 words)

	Lincoln/Net: The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Rise of the Republican party, 1854-1856
		In this form, the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed Congress and was signed into law by President Franklin Pierce.
		Douglas framed the bill with the idea that the people of Nebraska and Kansas should decide for themselves whether they wished to permit slavery, a doctrine he called "popular sovereignty." He hoped that local control could remove slavery from the national political stage, where it had become a disruptive issue.
		Lincoln dismissed arguments that climate and geography rendered slavery impossible in Kansas and Nebraska.
	lincoln.lib.niu.edu /biography6text.html (1081 words)

	AcademicDB - What were the major causes of the Civil War?
		In seeking Southern support Senator Stephen Douglas agreed that the territory should be divided into two states, Kansas and Nebraska, since Southerners felt that there was at least a possibility of voters choosing to introduce in Kansas, the Southern part of the territory.
		What followed the passing of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill were outbreaks of violence and attacks by both extreme pro-slavery supporters and extreme abolitionists.
		The Kansas-Nebraska Bill served simply to re-ignite tensions and to confirm Northern fears of a 'slave power' at work in the government.
	www.academicdb.com /were_major_causes_the_civil_war_7217 (527 words)

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