The Kansas-Nebraska Act, which was seen by Northerners as a pro-Southern act, was passed in 1854 and led to a rush of Northern settlers in the Kansas Territory.

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

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.

Nebraska has no Civil War battlegrounds. It wasn't even a state during the war. Perhaps these facts explain why many think, ... The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 represented the tipping point.

The Civil War started in April 1861 and raged for over four years. ... which opposed slavery and the Kansas-Nebraska Act, according to History.com. When Republican, ...

On this day in 1854, the House approved, 113-100, the Kansas-Nebraska Act. It repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, dampening chances of a peaceful resolution to the issue of slavery.

Debra Goodrich Bisel talked about how fighting in Kansas began six years before the Civil War officially started in 1861. The Kansas-Nebraska Act, which was seen by Northerners as a pro-Southern ...

The debate over Kansas and the events there marked a turning point in the march toward the Civil War. The Kansas-Nebraska Act opened Kansas Territory in 1854 and allowed people to determine ...

The concept of popular sovereignty was key to the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act, as authored by Sen. Stephen Douglas of Illinois. ... the start of the Civil War and the end of slavery in America. ...

On March 20, 1854, a group of anti-slavery activists who opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act met in a schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin. There, they founded the Republican Party, which opposed the ...

The two main targets: Sens. Stephen Douglas (D-Ill.) and Andrew Butler (D-S.C.), chief architects of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which allowed settlers to decide for themselves whether slavery would ...