In the thirty years leading up to the Civil War, tensions in the country ... Law for the recapture of runaways. 1854: The Kansas-Nebraska act divides the Nebraska Territory in two, and soon ...
The Democrat politician Stephen Douglas had the idea that the new territories of Kansas and Nebraska would choose for themselves whether they would become slave or free states. This meant the old ...
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