To the Editor of the New-York Daily Times: During my visit here, the settlement of Kansas has been a frequent ... belief is that the territory will be made a free State. View Full Article in ...

1854: The Kansas-Nebraska act divides the Nebraska Territory in two, and soon proslavery and antislavery proponents come head-to-head in a fight over Kansas.

While it gained territory from Dickinson County in 1860 ... the first surveyor-general of Kansas and Nebraska. The name for ...

when he introduced the Kansas-Nebraska bill to organize governments in the Kansas and Nebraska territories. In each territory, the question of slavery would be reserved until it entered the Union as a ...

The Democrat politician Stephen Douglas had the idea that the new territories of Kansas and Nebraska would choose for themselves whether they would become slave or free states. This meant the old ...

Major Acts: The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether to allow slavery within their borders, nullified the Missouri ...

The Republican party was first formed in 1854 to oppose the extension of slavery in the Kansas and Nebraska territories. The ...

which erupted after the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. Designed to open the western territories to settlement, the Kansas-Nebraska Act employed the doctrine of popular sovereignty to allow the people ...

In 1828, when Andrew Jackson was elected president, he promised to expand the United States westward. His justification for expansion seemed to him self-evident, for "What good man would prefer a ...

For the word puzzle clue of 1854 the kansasnebraska act becomes law establishing the us territories of nebraska and ___, the Sporcle Puzzle Library found the following results. Explore more crossword ...

he was part of a team who made multiple climbs on the Continental Divide to retrace and re-monument the original Base Line dividing the Kansas and Nebraska territories in which is now Colorado.

when he introduced the Kansas-Nebraska bill to organize governments in the Kansas and Nebraska territories. In each territory, the question of slavery would be reserved until it entered the Union as a ...