This Act was meant to allow the citizens of each new state to vote on whether it would be a slave-state or free soil.
With only one state voting at a time, every terrorist from both sides would descend on that one state, to intimidate voters.
The result was 'Bleeding Kansas'.
Chat with our AI personalities
lmmediate cause is the final act in a particular result or event
The selective service act is the requirement of all young men to register by the time they turn 18, with selective service, in the event of a draft.
The final act in a series of provocations leading to a particular result or events
The embargo act had a positive effect because it cuts off supplies for british and french.
The Whig Party (whose final collapse was the result of the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854 - since Southern Whigs joined the Democrats in supporting it, but Northern Whigs opposed it)