may 30, 1854 - Kansas-Nebraska Act & Bleeding Kansas

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act, passed in 1854, only four years following the Compromise of 1850, allowed the people in the Kansas and Nebraska to invoke popular sovereignty on the matter of slavery. In doing so, it repealed the Missouri Compromise, and therefore upset many Northerners. This helped in the creation of the Republican party, as tensions continued to grow - Kansas was expected become a slave state, as many pro-slavery citizens moved to the territory to sway the vote. There, conflict between them and the already settled Free-Soilers resulted in violent hostility, earning it the name ‘Bleeding Kansas’ and postponing Kansas’ statehood until 1861, when it enters the Union as a free state.Thereof, besides the immediate conflict, disagreement over the issue of slvary was reaching new levels, as peace and compromise was beginning to seem impossible from either side.

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