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." ...
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." ...
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...
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." ...
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. ...
