Discover the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. Learn how 'popular sovereignty' sparked Bleeding Kansas and accelerated the American Civil War in this article.
January 4, 1854 - A bill introduced by Sen. Stephen Douglas in January, 1854, divided the land west of Missouri into the territories of Kansas and Nebraska with the idea that the territories’ settlers ...
(“The Nebraska-Kansas Act of 1854,” John R. Wunder and Joann M. Ross, editors, University of Nebraska Press, 220 pages, $30 paperback.) One of the most important events to affect Nebraska came before ...
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