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.

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.

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 ...

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

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 It repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, dampening chances of a peaceful resolution to the issue of slavery.

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 ...

BALDWIN CITY, Kan. (WDAF) – Wednesday marks 165 years since the Battle of Black Jack, or what some would call the first battle of the Civil War, years before fighting began at Fort Sumter in ...

But now, just as the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 broke through the slave state limitation to the South, the Democratic Party's 2010 health care law has broken socialism's boundary of being so limited.

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. ...

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 ...

On this day in 1854, Abraham Lincoln, as a congressional candidate from Illinois, spoke out against the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which Congress had passed five months earlier.