By Ross Hetrick The death of slavery was helped along by the arrogance of the enslavers. During the 1850s, the southern enslavers were definitely in the drivers seat as far […] ...

Yes, the U.S. declared independence from the British Crown in 1776. But the kind of “king” these protesters seem to fear had ...

If Nebraska were organized with the compromise in place, it would be slave-free and slave-state Missouri ... He was, after all, a practical man, and he saw Kansas-Nebraska as a practical bill.

“It was filled up with all ... Kansas-Nebraska Act would allow the citizens of those western territories to decide through popular vote whether they wanted to become a free state or a slave ...

Keywords Civil War, slavery, free states, slave states, Missouri Compromise, Wilmot Proviso, Compromise of 1850, popular sovereignty, Kansas-Nebraska Act ... with co-star after more than 40 ...

As historian James McPherson has noted, On all issues ... the admission of slave states above the 36° 30’ latitude line. The Act admitted the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, and it allowed ...

During the American Revolution, the state ... slavery Democrats, along with members of the Free Soil party. Sumner joined the Republicans the year after the Senate voted for the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

Today, 165 years after his execution ... residents in Kansas and Nebraska would hold elections to decide if the territories would enter the Union as “free states” or “slave states.

Being a “Lincoln reader,” I knew of the Kansas-Nebraska Act ... as slave, and Minnesota was organized as a free territory. Texas joined the union as a slave state by treaty in 1845. All ...