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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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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