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 ...

Kansas was created as part of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854. The act dictated that instead of Congress determining whether slavery would be allowed, the citizens of each territory would vote on ...

We are now beginning to enter the Kansas-Nebraska Act stage of the socialist crisis of the Republic. At our constitutional founding, the evil of slavery had been crudely evaded. In 1820, the ...

On December 14, 1853, Augustus C. Dodge of Iowa introduced a bill in the Senate. The bill proposed organizing the Nebraska territory, which also included an area that would become the state of Kansas.

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.

Two years earlier, passage of the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act eliminated the Missouri Compromise restriction on slavery in northern territories, replacing it instead with “popular sovereignty ...

In 1854, Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, erasing the Missouri Compromise and allowing slavery to expand into the northwest territories by “popular sovereignty,” the doctrine that ...

April 7, 2015 Bleeding Kansas. Bill Wagnon talked about “Bleeding Kansas,” the series of violent political confrontations from 1854-1961 between anti-slavery and pro-slavery… ...