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How did the kansas nebraska act affect the civil war?
I. Passage of the Kansas- Nebraska Act a. This act allowed the Kansas and Nebraska territories to decide whether they wanted slavery or not with popular sovereignty b. This created a struggle between the pro slavery and abolitionists c. Fought over whether the state should be free or not
What were the major parts of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act served to negate the principles laid down in the Missouri Compromise of 1820. It allowed the residents of Kansas and Nebraska to vote on whether to be free or slave states.
What was a northern objection to the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The Kansas-Nebraska act allowed states to decide for themselves whether to allow slavery, which was controversial because of the slavery issue. Many people didn't want to allow it anywhere, and others wanted to promote and enforce it everywhere.
How did popular sovereignty lead to violence in Kansas?
Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois wanted to encourage people to live in the west territories that were created by the Kansas-Nebraska act. In these territories popular sovereignty was used to determine the issue of slavery. Settlers that came to the new territories would be allowed to vote if slavery would be allowed. Both territories were North of latitude 36.30, and according to the Missouri compromise, slavery was banned in the territories north of this line. the Kansas-Nebraska act would cancel the Missouri compromise. This caused some of the Northerners to feel betrayed by Douglas.
What were the main points of the kansas-nebraska act?
It created the Nebraska and Kansas territories. Repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820. Allowed settlers to determine if they wanted slavery or not. Also was initial started to create the opportunity to for Mideastern Transcontinental Railroad, and aroused the debate of slavery again among the Northern and Southern states.
Douglas wanted Kansas and Nebraska settled so a could be built.?
(Railroad)
What was Stephen Douglas's rationale for the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Stephen Douglas wanted the Kansas-Nebraska Act to pass in 1854 because resolving the debate about slavery would help railroads expand faster.
Passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act was a victory for?
It was a victory for Stephen Douglas and Southerners that wanted a transcontinental railroad to run west from New Orleans.
What two states wanted to be addmitted into the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was concerned with the admission of the Kansas and Nebraska territories into the USA. Since the two sections could not agree whether these future states should be slave or free, Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois suggested that the people of each state should vote on it. The result was Bleeding Kansas.
What democratic senator pushed the idea of the popular sovereignty in kansas and Nebraska?
Stephen A. Douglas was an American politician from Illinois and the designed of the Nebraska-Kansas Act. The act wanted to create a sovereign nation that allowed male white settlers whether they would allow slavery in those nations.Ê
What democratic senator the idea of popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska?
Stephen A. Douglas was an American politician from Illinois and the designed of the Nebraska-Kansas Act. The act wanted to create a sovereign nation that allowed male white settlers whether they would allow slavery in those nations.Ê
What Democratic Senator push the idea of popular sovereignty Kansas and Nebraska?
Stephen A. Douglas was an American politician from Illinois and the designed of the Nebraska-Kansas Act. The act wanted to create a sovereign nation that allowed male white settlers whether they would allow slavery in those nations.Ê
What was the imortance of Kansas-Nebraska Act?
It created the Nebraska and Kansas territories. Repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820. Allowed settlers to determine if they wanted slavery or not.
Why did northerners head for Kansas After the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed?
they wanted to create a majority antislavery place
How did the kansas nebraska act affect the civil war?
I. Passage of the Kansas- Nebraska Act a. This act allowed the Kansas and Nebraska territories to decide whether they wanted slavery or not with popular sovereignty b. This created a struggle between the pro slavery and abolitionists c. Fought over whether the state should be free or not
Why was Kansas Nebraska act so pertaining?
It let settlers decide if they wanted a slave state or not, set boundaries between Kansas and Nebraska, and made both a state.
Why did Stephen Douglas propose repealing the Missouri Compromise?
Douglas wanted to abandon the Missouri Compromise because he wanted to put in place his own Kansas- Nebraska Act. This act would expand railroads and allow territories to choose for themselves if they wanted to be free or slave states.
