1 janv. 1854 - Kansas-Nebraska Act tests policy of popular sovereignty

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-Douglas proposes to extinguish Native American rights on the Great Plains and make a large free territory called Nebraska
-opposed by southerners (wanted more slavery and a transcontinental railroad terminus in a southern city)
-Douglas revised his bill to make new territories decide on slavery, make new territories in Nebraska and Kansas
-passed by senate, barely passed by HofR


A controversial 1854 law that divided Indian Territory into Kansas and Nebraska, repealed the Missouri Compromise, and left the new territories to decide the issue of slavery on the basis of popular sovereignty. Far from clarifying the status of slavery in the territories, the act led to violent conflict in “Bleeding Kansas.”

effects: northerners (many WHigs) protested slave power, attention diverted from immigration, formation fo the Republican Party, thousands rushed to the Kansas territory (leading to Bleeding Kansas)

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