Because terrorists know how to take advantage of popular sovereignty!
All manner of cross-border ruffians came over to intimidate voters and declare all results to be rigged.
In the end, Kansas was voted free soil - but at a terrible cost in bloodshed. The experiment was not repeated.
Because if only one state at a time is voting on the slavery issue, that one state is going to be a magnet for every bully-boy in America, from both sides, to intimidate voters and try to corrupt the ballot.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act also led to "Bleeding Kansas," a mini civil war that erupted in Kansas in 1856. Northerners and Southerners flooded Kansas in 1854 and 1855, determined to convert the future state to their view on slavery.
It seemed like a reasonable solution to the slavery debate - let the people of each new state vote on whether it would be slave or free. The flaw in the argument was that the states would be voting one at a time. So every bully-boy in America, from both sides, would descend on one thinly-populated area to commit maximum mayhem. When it was tried-out, in Kansas, the result was called 'Bleeding Kansas'.
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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.
John Brown came to the Kansas Territory to fight slavery. In May 1856 John Brown led a group that killed several proslavery settlers near Pottawatomie Creek. In August 1856, Brown and his followers engaged 400 pro-slavery U.S. soldiers in the "Battle of Osawatomie".
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people dident votei don't think the popular sovereignty have anything do to with leading to the civil war.
If you allow one state at a time to vote on the slavery issue, that one (thinly-populated) state is going to be a magnet for every terrorist from both sides to invade the area to intimidate voters.
Mob rule.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act also led to "Bleeding Kansas," a mini civil war that erupted in Kansas in 1856. Northerners and Southerners flooded Kansas in 1854 and 1855, determined to convert the future state to their view on slavery.
Prior to Kansas joining the Union, the Kansas Territory was a hotbed of violence and chaos between anti-slavery and pro-slavery settlers. Kansas was known as Bleeding Kansas as these forces collided over the issue of slavery in the United States. The term "Bleeding Kansas" was coined by Republican Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune.
It seemed like a reasonable solution to the slavery debate - let the people of each new state vote on whether it would be slave or free. The flaw in the argument was that the states would be voting one at a time. So every bully-boy in America, from both sides, would descend on one thinly-populated area to commit maximum mayhem. When it was tried-out, in Kansas, the result was called 'Bleeding Kansas'.
The violence in Kansas, known as "Bleeding Kansas," resulted from clashes between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces over the issue of whether Kansas would enter the Union as a free or slave state. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which allowed popular sovereignty to determine the state's status, led to a flood of settlers on both sides, resulting in violent conflicts and bloodshed. This period marked a precursor to the larger tensions that would eventually lead to the American Civil War.
Passage of the act let to Bleeding Kansas because it caused violence over the issue of slavery. The state was supposed to vote about slavery, and people tried to force neighbors to be pro or anti slavery.
tensions increased between the north and south causing small wars leading up to secession and the civil war
The act said that the voters could decide if the states were free or slave. John Brown and his sons decided to go to Lawrence Kansas to kill people that were for slavery. Many people who were not from Kansas crossed the state line to cause problems or try to sway the vote, so Lawrence was filled with people. Brown and his sons took axes to people and murdered them. The term "Bleeding Kansas " came from a newspaper headline about the murders.