Kansas-Nebraska Act
Popular sovereignty expansion
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was an 1854 U.S. law that created the Kansas and Nebraska territories and allowed settlers there to decide whether to permit slavery—effectively repealing the Missouri Compromise's ban on slavery north of a certain latitude.
The act inflamed sectional tensions over slavery and contributed directly to the formation of the Republican Party and the onset of the Civil War.
- Abraham LincolnCivil War era leader
- John BrownRadical antislavery insurrectionist
- Fugitive Slave ActLaw mandating escapee return
- repealAnnul a statute
- Franklin Pierce1850s American president
popular sovereignty · slave state · Jefferson Davis · Federalism · railroad · sectional · Henry Clay · Frederick Douglass · Harriet Beecher Stowe · Pierce · Congress · Manifest Destiny · Underground Railroad · Dred Scott · Civil War · Republican Party · slavery · territories
- 1840s-1850sOregon Trail, California Gold Rush, Mexican-American War, Manifest Destiny, Underground Railroad
- Antebellum Americaantebellum era, Compromise of 1850, sectionalism, states' rights, Fugitive Slave Act
- Historic LawsHomestead Act, Fugitive Slave Act, Missouri Compromise, Chinese Exclusion Act, Indian Removal Act
- Kansas Historystatehood, Lawrence, John Brown, Topeka, abolitionists
- Bleeding KansasFree-Staters, John Brown, popular sovereignty, bushwhackers, guerrilla warfare
- slave lawsslave code, slave codes, Code Noir, Fugitive Slave Act, pass laws
Kansas-Nebraska ActEmancipation Proclamation
Executive order freeing Confederate slaves