The origins of the Kansas-Nebraska Act lie in the uncontroversial issue of the advancement of Midwestern settlement. ... Conscience Whigs and Free-Soil Democrats from the North believed the Kansas-Nebraska Act violated the Missouri Compromise and that it was a Southern plot to spread slavery. ... To conclude, Douglas" Kansas-Nebraska Act struck a huge blow to national unity. ... In addition, the Kansas-Nebraska Act destroyed the second party system. The Whig party was eliminated when its congressional representation split along sectional lines on the Kansas-Nebraska Act. ...

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The Whigs typically criticized them for this. ... The only government the Whigs favored was the "American System." ... Also, large farm corporations supported the Whigs because Whigs could give them cheap bank credit which they needed for an over abundance of supplies. ... The Kansas-Nebraska act of 1854 reopened the possibility of slavery's westward spread and committed to defeating democrats in order to drive the so-called southern slave power from control of the national government, the Republicans attracted hundreds of thousands of former Whigs, Democrats and Free Soilers in the North...

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The Whigs had the "Conscience" Whigs who battled the "Cotton" Whigs. ... Pierce looked more like a "Northern man with Southern principles". ... In 1854 Senator Stephen Douglas from Illinois reported the Nebraska bill, which became the Kansas-Nebraska Act. He repealed the Missouri Compromise, and agreed to organize two territories, Kansas and Nebraska. ... In 1854 the Kansas-Nebraska debate drew Abraham Lincoln (Springfield, Illinois) back into the political a...

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It almost immediately transformed southern agriculture and revitalized slavery. ... For his Crime Against Kansas speech. 1851 Fall of the Whig Party- Southern Whig support for the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 convinced most northern Whigs to abandon the party, and by the end of that year it had essentially disbanded. ... Most northern Whigs, however, eventually joined the newly formed Republican party. ... It provided a potential route for construction of a transcontinental railroad. 1853 Kansas Nebraska Act- In 1854, Senator Stephen A. Douglas introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, a prop...

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The Kansas-Nebraska act made the conditions even worse for our country. This act completely challenged the Missouri Compromise, and it was an ill attempt at unity, that quickly became known as "bleeding Kansas." ... In this election the north came out ahead because Kansas was declared a free state. ... The northerners went Republican, and the southerners went Democratic, which meant that the Whigs were totally abandoned by both parties. ... If I were a northerner back then I would by outraged by the thought of slavery and I would want to make the southern economy suffer. ...

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It was called the Kansas-Nebraska Act. It authorized the creation of Kansas and Nebraska, west of Missouri and Iowa and divided by the 40th parallel. ... This act was sponsored by the Democratic senator Stephen A. ... This act split the Democratic party and destroyed the Whig party also. ... This was what known as "Bleeding Kansas." ...

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It was called the Kansas-Nebraska Act. It authorized the creation of Kansas and Nebraska, west of Missouri and Iowa and divided by the 40th parallel. ... This act was sponsored by the Democratic senator Stephen A. ... This act split the Democratic Party and destroyed the Whig party also. ... This was what known as "Bleeding Kansas." ...

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From 1837, when Lincoln first attacked slavery as bad politics, his thoughts evolved from thinking that slavery would eventually die out by compromising that southern states could have its slaves without expanding, to 1854, when the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed, as it stated Congress had no right to prohibit the expansion of slavery to federal territories, and this would radicalize Lincoln's idea of a southern conspiracy that threatened the ideas of the Founding Fathers, which gave him a distinct moral conviction and tone to his political argument. ... Lincoln was a member of the cons...

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Southern Congressmen rejected or severely impeded funding needed for internal improvements. ... But in 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act which was sponsored by Democrat Stephen A. ... The Kansas-Nebraska Act supplanted the old Missouri Compromise (which in 1820 had designated areas of the new territories in which slavery could and could not be introduced) and made it possible for slavery to be introduced in virtually any new territory. ... Douglas (leader of the Northern Democratic faction and creator of the Kansas-Nebraska Act) and John Breckinridge, leader of the Southern faction. John Bell was...

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It was called the Kansas-Nebraska Act. It authorized the creation of Kansas and Nebraska, west of Missouri and Iowa and divided by the 40th parallel. ... This act was sponsored by the Democratic senator Stephen A. ... This act split the Democratic party and destroyed the Whig party also. ... This was what known as "Bleeding Kansas." ...

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It was called the Kansas-Nebraska Act. It authorized the creation of Kansas and Nebraska, west of Missouri and Iowa and divided by the 40th parallel. ... This act was sponsored by the Democratic senator Stephen A. ... This act split the Democratic party and destroyed the Whig party also. ... This was what known as "Bleeding Kansas." ...

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It was called the Kansas-Nebraska Act. It authorized the creation of Kansas and Nebraska, west of Missouri and Iowa and divided by the 40th parallel. ... This act was sponsored by the Democratic senator Stephen A. ... This act split the Democratic party and destroyed the Whig party also. ... This was what known as "Bleeding Kansas." ...

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It was called the Kansas-Nebraska Act. It authorized the creation of Kansas and Nebraska, west of Missouri and Iowa and divided by the 40th parallel. ... This act was sponsored by the Democratic senator Stephen A. ... This act split the Democratic party and destroyed the Whig party also. ... This was what known as "Bleeding Kansas." ...

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Later this same territory would form into states we know today as Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa, Arkansas, North Dakota, South Dakota, most of Louisiana, Kansas, Minnesota, Montana, Wyoming, and parts of Colorado and Oklahoma. ... The southern state Senators did not like the wording in the Tallmadge amendment. ... As the last excerpt from this amendment, you can tell why the southern states never like this amendment. ... Which is the southern boundary or line of Missouri. ... On March 6,1820, President Monroe signed the Missouri Enabling Act or called the Thomas Amendment al...

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(the southern boundary of Missouri). ... In 1854 the problem of slavery was made acute with the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, leaving the question of slavery in the Kansas and Nebraska territories to the settlers themselves. ... Kansas-Nebraska Act, bill that became law on May 30, 1854, by which the U.S. Congress established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. ... In its final form Douglas's bill provided for the creation of two new territories "Kansas and Nebraska "instead of one. ...

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The North was supported by the Republican Party, formerly the Whigs, while the South remained the Democratic Party. ... The Northern people religiously bashed the Southern slave culture. ... Douglas of Illinois comprised a bill to organize the territory of Kansas and Nebraska. Known as the Kansas-Nebraska Act, it brought slavery into a territory that was once free soil. ... This dilemma soon transpired into a bloody uproar in Kansas. ...

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(Hume, Video Lecture 5) The Kansas-Nebraska Act of the 1850's proved to be the next big watershed of the time. Steven Douglas takes his popular sovereignty issue and implements it in Kansas and Nebraska as he did in the Southwest. ... The bill still passed with much turmoil and protest throughout the North with anti-Nebraska meetings. ... This was known as "Bleeding Kansas". ... The Whig party disappears and the Democratic candidate wins the election. ...

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Besides putting the South under the rule of federal soldiers, the Military Reconstruction Act of 1867 required that Southern states to give blacks the vote as a condition of readmittance to the Union. ... Blacks and carpetbaggers gained control of some Southern legislatures. Scalawags were Southerners, former Unionist and Whigs who helped the radical Republicans in the South because they accepted the consequences of the war. ... Butler in the wake of the Kansas-Nebraska crisis. ... Congress passed the Tenure of Office Act in 1867. ...

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Buchanan, a southern sympathizer, wanted to stay at arms length and do the minimum towards the treasonous South. ... The question of slavery remaining lawful in the South as well as in the newly acquired terriortories in the southwest, Nebraska, and Kansas was first and foremost on their agendas. Besides the discrimitory beliefs most southern held against the black slave these southern elitist had a huge financial interest in slave holding. ... This powerful act the president could have enacted, prior to his and congress's constitutional lame duck period, may have discouraged or at leas...

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By the election of 1836 the National Republicans and other anti-Jacksonians had merged to form a new party the Whigs. ... The Republican Party was born in an outburst of protest against the Kansas-Nebraska Bill in 1852 (455). After the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, opponents of the measure held a series of conventions that led to the formation of the Republican Party. ... The Whig Party had disappeared, the Know-Nothing Party had faded, and the Democratic Party was divided over the issue of slavery. ... Breckenridge was the Southern Democrats candidate, Douglas was the Northern Democ...

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"Representatives of the northern states claimed that if the southern slaves were mere property, then they should not be counted towards voting representation in Congress (Harrison 1)". ... The northern delegates were afraid that any attempt they made to abolish slavery would have caused the five southern states to refuse to ratify the constitution (Welch 33). ... Most slavery had declined by the late seventeen hundreds, but in the new constitution it was still legal because all of the Northern and Southern delegates had signed the new constitution. ... The invention of the cotton gin made ...

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They had "southern values- and were not open to change, unlike the north. ... Southern plantations were swamped with black slaves. ... In England they had two political parties: Whigs and Tories (terrorists and thieves). ... The Kansas-Nebraska act changed this. ...

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