1 Interactive maps of the Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 and the Missouri Compromise of 1820, designed for use with this lesson. 2  Stephen A. Douglas's speech on the Nebraska Territory (1854)  Abraham Lincoln's speech on The Repeal of the Missouri Compromise (1854)
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This lesson plan will examine how the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 affected the political balance between free and slave states and explore how its author, Stephen Douglas, promoted its policy of popular sovereignty in an effort to avoid a national crisis over slavery in the federal territories.
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In Lincoln's mind, the Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 marked a crossroads in American politics: the nation must decide if the federal constitution committed them to the spread of freedom or slavery.
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act would be crucial in the coming of the Civil War. The Missouri Compromise (1820) had banned slavery in the Louisiana Purchase north of 36º30' north latitude, except within the borders of the slave state of Missouri that was created by the Compromise.
http://plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.pg.036
After Kansas and Nebraska were organized by Congress in 1854, the struggle to form a constitution for Kansas took center stage. Proponents of a free Kansas set up a territorial legislature in Topeka, while pro-slavery settlers established a government in Lecompton.
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The act provided that each territory would decide the issue through the constitution under which it would enter the union. Kansas Territory, because of its proximity to Missouri, a slave state, became a political and literal battleground for proslavery and antislavery forces.
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Encyclopedia of the Great Plains. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 brought territorial government to that portion of the Louisiana Purchase between the Missouri River and the divide of the Rocky Mountains and from 37º north latitude to the boundary of British America at 49º north latitude.
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Kansas Territory was officially established on May 30, 1854, when President Franklin Pierce signed into law the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Congressional debate on the act continued discussion of the question of whether or not slavery would be allowed to expand into newly opened territories.
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The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 shattered whatever peace was gained by the Compromise of 1850. In addition to organizing the U.S. Territories of Kansas and Nebraska, the act attempted to deal with the extension of slavery into this region by allowing the settlers in each territory to decide the question for themselves.
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act set in motion a plan that was supposed to decide the Kansas question through a peaceful, democratic process. The nation was ready to expand into the vast interior that had previously been reserved, for the most part, for American Indian peoples.
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when did the kansas nebraska act
The Kansas-Nebraska was acted in 1854.  The Kansas Nebraska Act was passed in 1854.