USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Known as the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the controversial bill raised the possibility that slavery could be extended into territories where it had once been banned. Its passage intensified the bitter debate over slavery in the United States, which would later explode into the Civil War.

Detailed explanation-2: -Officially titled “An Act to Organize the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas, ” this act repealed the Missouri Compromise, which had outlawed slavery above the 36º30’ latitude in the Louisiana territories, and reopened the national struggle over slavery in the western territories.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty. It also produced a violent uprising known as “Bleeding Kansas, ” as proslavery and antislavery activists flooded into the territories to sway the vote.

Detailed explanation-4: -A vote of ten to three in the Territory Council, and thirty-three to three in the Territorial House overrode his veto, and slavery was forbidden in Nebraska. Although the Territory prohibited slavery, at first the legislators limited suffrage to “free white males", as was typical of many states.

Detailed explanation-5: -Slavery existed in Kansas Territory, but on a much smaller scale than in the South. Most slaveholders owned only one or two slaves. Many slaves were women and children who performed domestic work rather than farm labor.