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    (1852) Recapture of Anthony Burns (1854) KansasNebraska Act (1854) Ostend Manifesto (1854) Bleeding Kansas (1854–61) Caning of Charles Sumner (1856)...
    62 KB (7,283 words) - 08:34, 4 February 2025
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    question of whether Kansas was to be a free or a slave state was, according to the Compromise of 1850 and the KansasNebraska Act, to be decided by popular...
    17 KB (1,942 words) - 01:57, 30 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Bleeding Kansas
    (1852) Recapture of Anthony Burns (1854) KansasNebraska Act (1854) Ostend Manifesto (1854) Bleeding Kansas (1854–61) Caning of Charles Sumner (1856)...
    52 KB (5,826 words) - 18:47, 7 January 2025
  • The Anti-Nebraska movement was a political alignment in the United States formed in opposition to the KansasNebraska Act of 1854 and to its repeal of...
    5 KB (595 words) - 00:56, 5 October 2024
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    admitted to the Union as the state of Nebraska. The Nebraska Territory was created by the KansasNebraska Act of 1854. The territorial capital was Omaha...
    18 KB (1,312 words) - 06:00, 25 November 2024
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    sharply after he supported the 1854 KansasNebraska Act, which nullified the Missouri Compromise. Passage of the act led directly to a long and violent...
    64 KB (8,122 words) - 18:31, 4 January 2025
  • Kansas became permanently part of the United States in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. When the area was opened to settlement by the KansasNebraska Act...
    84 KB (10,638 words) - 08:53, 3 December 2024
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    he alienated anti-slavery groups by signing the KansasNebraska Act and enforcing the Fugitive Slave Act. Conflict between North and South continued after...
    118 KB (14,361 words) - 03:40, 6 February 2025
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    officially opened to settlement by the U.S. government in 1854 with the KansasNebraska Act, conflict between abolitionist Free-Staters from New England and...
    186 KB (16,885 words) - 15:40, 6 February 2025
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    Uncle Tom's Cabin, an 1852 anti-slavery novel and play. In 1854, the KansasNebraska Act reversed long-standing compromises by providing that each new state...
    68 KB (8,710 words) - 02:06, 29 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for 1856 United States presidential election
    The main issue was the expansion of slavery as facilitated by the KansasNebraska Act of 1854. Buchanan defeated President Franklin Pierce at the 1856...
    54 KB (4,566 words) - 16:38, 1 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for William Hayden English
    introduction of the KansasNebraska Act, proposed by Illinois Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, which would open the Kansas and Nebraska territories to slavery...
    33 KB (3,540 words) - 05:37, 11 December 2024
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    Congress created the Kansas and the Nebraska territories, divided by the Parallel 40° North, under the KansasNebraska Act. The Nebraska Territory included...
    110 KB (8,409 words) - 17:42, 6 February 2025
  • (1852) Recapture of Anthony Burns (1854) KansasNebraska Act (1854) Ostend Manifesto (1854) Bleeding Kansas (1854–61) Caning of Charles Sumner (1856)...
    13 KB (1,611 words) - 17:40, 13 December 2024
  • Popular sovereignty in the United States (category Legal history of Kansas)
    by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. The residents of each territory were to determine the status of enslavement in their territory. In Nebraska there was...
    26 KB (3,870 words) - 18:16, 7 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Abraham Lincoln
    successful law practice in Springfield, Illinois. In 1854, angered by the KansasNebraska Act, which opened the territories to slavery, he re-entered politics...
    207 KB (22,927 words) - 01:55, 6 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Butler County, Kansas
    Andrew Butler, a U.S. Senator from South Carolina who coauthored the KansasNebraska Act. For many millennia, the Great Plains of North America was inhabited...
    29 KB (1,877 words) - 06:55, 20 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Compromise of 1850
    (1852) Recapture of Anthony Burns (1854) KansasNebraska Act (1854) Ostend Manifesto (1854) Bleeding Kansas (1854–61) Caning of Charles Sumner (1856)...
    52 KB (7,147 words) - 20:10, 22 January 2025
  • (1852) Recapture of Anthony Burns (1854) KansasNebraska Act (1854) Ostend Manifesto (1854) Bleeding Kansas (1854–61) Caning of Charles Sumner (1856)...
    12 KB (1,666 words) - 14:25, 22 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Sam Houston
    against the KansasNebraska Act, as he believed it would lead to increased sectional tensions over slavery, and his opposition to that act led him to leave...
    64 KB (7,156 words) - 22:49, 6 February 2025
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