MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
COMPROMISE OF 1850
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Kansas adopted the Jayhawks motto
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both Northerners and Southerners raced to settle Kansas in order to vote on slavery or freedom
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abolitionists were unsure what to think about the Act.
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Nebraska became the most desirable place to live in the Union.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty.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-2: -Several Southern senators visited Pierce in the White House and gave him an ultimatum, either support Douglas’s Kansas-Nebraska Act or lose all political support that the president currently enjoyed in the South. Pierce gave in to the senators. Many white Northerners opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act in its final form.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Many northerners view the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act as evidence of the slave power’s hostility to the North and the damaging effects it had on northern interests. Consequently, the Democratic Party faced significant backlash from its northern wing.