The issue of slavery divided the United States long before the election of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. After the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed in 1854, newly established states could use ...

In 1854 the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act served as a catalyst to war and created the conditions that led to the birth of the Republican Party and Lincoln’s political ascendancy.

Discover everything about Kansas, the Sunflower State, including its history as a battleground during the Civil War, its ...

It was all about slavery. The concept of popular sovereignty was key to the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act, as authored by Sen. Stephen Douglas of Illinois.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act effectively repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and allowed the spread of slavery to the Western territories.

The Law that Ripped America in Two One hundred fifty years ago, the Kansas-Nebraska Act set the stage for America’s civil war ...

In May 1854, just as the Kansas-Nebraska Act exploded in American politics, a man named Anthony Burns, who had escaped slavery in Virginia, was arrested and detained in Boston.

In May of 1854, Democrats in Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which included a provision that would allow residents of the new Kansas and Nebraska territories to decide whether or not to ...

Historian Brown (The First Populist) recaps the passage of the “explosive” Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which he argues “profoundly affected the way that both northerners and southerners saw ...

Keywords Civil War, slavery, free states, slave states, Missouri Compromise, Wilmot Proviso, Compromise of 1850, popular sovereignty, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott, Abraham Lincoln, sectional ...

The arguments over the Lecompton Constitution, along with the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Dred Scott decision, meant the question of slavery was now about its endless expansion.