Nebraska-Kansas Act
Where was it Organized?
Area West of Missouri and Iowa.
What year did the Kansas Nebraska act happen?
1854
What was the result of the Kansas Nebraska act
Creating Kansas and Nebraska and opened land for settlers to come.
Was Stephen Douglas for or against slavery?
He supported it
Land Rush
Nebraska was too far north for plantations--people of Nebraska wanted territory without slavery. Kansas was further south and platations could be built there. As soon as the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed, thousands of people rushed to claim land in Kansas. This would tip the vote on slavery.
What did the Nebraska Kansas act do?
Nebraska was turned into Kansas and Nebraska.
Did the Nebraska Kansas act make things better?
No, it led to violence .
Were Kansas and Nebraska a free or slave state?
Settlers had the right to popular sovereignty.
Who started the kansas nebraska act?
Stephen Douglas
What happened to railroads?
Stephen Douglas proposed that railroads be built to link the east and far west
What is the Kansas Nebraska act?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereignty whether they would allow slavery.
What was "Bleeding Kansas"?
The south crossed the border into Kansas and terrorized and murdered antislavery settlers. Antislavery sympathizers from Kansas carried out reprisal attacks, the most notorious of which was John Brown's 1856 attack on the settlement at Pottawatomie Creek. The war continued for four years before the antislavery forces won. The violence it generated helped precipitate the Civil War.
What was the purpose?
To open up farms and make railroads.
Was south for slaves
Yes
What north slave or anti slave
Yes
What was the impact of the Kansas Nebraska act?
it ignored the Missouri comrpromise and the republican party was established, broder ruffians battled antislavery forces in what became known as "Bleeding Kansas"
