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.

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 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 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. ...

The Kansas-Nebraska Act further escalated tensions, ... Keywords Civil War, slavery, free states, slave states, Missouri Compromise, Wilmot Proviso, Compromise of 1850, ...

A Hell of a Storm: The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War David S. Brown. Scribner, $32 (352p) ISBN 978-1-6680-2281-8 ...

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. ...