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    Fort Sumter The KansasNebraska Act of 1854 (10 Stat. 277) was a territorial organic act that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. It was drafted...
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  • The Anti-Nebraska movement was a political alignment in the United States formed in opposition to the KansasNebraska Act of 1854 and to its repeal of...
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    admitted to the Union as the state of Nebraska. The Nebraska Territory was created by the KansasNebraska Act of 1854. The territorial capital was Omaha...
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    question of whether Kansas was to be a free or a slave state was, according to the Compromise of 1850 and the KansasNebraska Act, to be decided by popular...
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    1850 Uncle Tom's Cabin Recapture of Anthony Burns KansasNebraska Act Ostend Manifesto Bleeding Kansas Caning of Charles Sumner Dred Scott v. Sandford The...
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    war in territorial Kansas, and Buchanan, a former Secretary of State, had avoided the divisive debates over the KansasNebraska Act by being in Europe...
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  • Kansas became permanently part of the United States in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. When the area was opened to settlement by the KansasNebraska Act...
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    sharply after he supported the 1854 KansasNebraska Act, which nullified the Missouri Compromise. Passage of the act led directly to a long and violent...
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    Illinois who had sponsored the Kansas-Nebraska Act; subsequently, in 1858, Richardson was appointed governor of the Nebraska Territory. The first courthouse...
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    he alienated anti-slavery groups by signing the KansasNebraska Act and enforcing the Fugitive Slave Act. Conflict between North and South continued after...
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    Andrew Butler, a U.S. Senator from South Carolina who coauthored the KansasNebraska Act. For many millennia, the Great Plains of North America was inhabited...
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    officially opened to settlement by the U.S. government in 1854 with the KansasNebraska Act, conflict between abolitionist Free-Staters from New England and...
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    Uncle Tom's Cabin, an 1852 anti-slavery novel and play. In 1854, the KansasNebraska Act reversed long-standing compromises by providing that each new state...
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    successful law practice in Springfield, Illinois. In 1854, angered by the KansasNebraska Act, which opened the territories to slavery, he re-entered politics...
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  • 1850 Uncle Tom's Cabin Recapture of Anthony Burns KansasNebraska Act Ostend Manifesto Bleeding Kansas Caning of Charles Sumner Dred Scott v. Sandford The...
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    presidential election, taking just under five percent of the vote. The 1854 KansasNebraska Act repealed the long-standing Missouri Compromise and outraged many...
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  • Republican Party after the Whigs collapsed in the wake of the 1854 KansasNebraska Act. In 1858, he launched a challenge to Democratic Senator Stephen A...
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  • 1850 Uncle Tom's Cabin Recapture of Anthony Burns KansasNebraska Act Ostend Manifesto Bleeding Kansas Caning of Charles Sumner Dred Scott v. Sandford The...
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    Congress created the Kansas and the Nebraska territories, divided by the Parallel 40° North, under the KansasNebraska Act. The Nebraska Territory included...
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    1850 Uncle Tom's Cabin Recapture of Anthony Burns KansasNebraska Act Ostend Manifesto Bleeding Kansas Caning of Charles Sumner Dred Scott v. Sandford The...
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    a ferry house, the first residence in Nebraska City. In 1854 the KansasNebraska Act allowed legal settlement in the regional area. Three townships were...
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    introduction of the KansasNebraska Act, proposed by Illinois Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, which would open the Kansas and Nebraska territories to slavery...
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  • Popular sovereignty in the United States (category Legal history of Kansas)
    by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. The residents of each territory were to determine the status of enslavement in their territory. In Nebraska there was...
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    within the party. The Whigs collapsed following the passage of the KansasNebraska Act in 1854, with most Northern Whigs eventually joining the anti-slavery...
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  • the KansasNebraska Act through Congress. President Franklin Pierce signed the bill into law in 1854. The Act opened Kansas Territory and Nebraska Territory...
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  • party attracted former Democrats and Whigs who were opposed to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which extended slavery in the United States. Henry S. Lane was essential...
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    1850 Uncle Tom's Cabin Recapture of Anthony Burns KansasNebraska Act Ostend Manifesto Bleeding Kansas Caning of Charles Sumner Dred Scott v. Sandford The...
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    Mexico Territory Organic Act (1850) The KansasNebraska Act created Kansas Territory and Nebraska Territory The Colorado Organic Act, 1861, created the Territory...
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    against the KansasNebraska Act, as he believed it would lead to increased sectional tensions over slavery, and his opposition to that act led him to leave...
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    he opposed the Compromise of 1850 and the KansasNebraska Act. In the aftermath of the KansasNebraska Act, Chase helped establish the Republican Party...
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