nebraska kansas act
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Nebraska Kansas Act
Andrew
What was it?
• Proposed by Stephen Douglas
• It let the states decide if they wanted to be a slave state or free state
• Made to repeal the Missouri compromise and create more slave states at first
Who supported it?
• Southerners supported it because there could now be slave states above the Mason-Dixon line
• Anti-slavery supporters also supported it because they could end the spread of slavery
Conflict caused
• Angered the southern states because they would no longer have equal say in congress
• Pro slavery and anti slavery settlers rushed to settle Kansas for the vote for slavery
• The pro-slavery settlers won but the anti-slavery settlers but the anti-slavery settlers said the pro-slavery used fraud.
Fighting in Kansas
• Violence erupted between anti and pro slavery supporters
• The death toll rose drastically as a result• The territory earned the nickname Bleeding
Kansas• The anti-slavery supporters were lead by
John Brown
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Kansas accepted as a state
• A constitution was proposed by congress and Kansas was not admitted as a free state
• Eventually the anti-slave supports out numbered the pro-slave supporters and a constitution was drawn up
• On January 29, 1861 Kansas was added to the union as a free state
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Later effects of the act
• The republican party was created by those who opposed slavery
• Lead the country closer to civil war• Split the country in half between the
north(Republican) and south(Democrat)
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