SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
TENSION OVER SLAVERY IN THE 1850S
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Kansas
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Nebraska
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New Mexico
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California
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Detailed explanation-1: -In January 1854, Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois introduced a bill that divided the land immediately west of Missouri into two territories, Kansas and Nebraska.
Detailed explanation-2: -Franklin Pierce signed An Act to Organize the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas into law on May 30, 1854. Written in an effort to arrest the escalating sectional controversy over the extension of slavery, the Kansas-Nebraska Act ironically fanned the flame of national division.
Detailed explanation-3: -Citizens in the territory would most likely vote against slavery. But the South recognized Douglas’s ploy, and he made two concessions: The bill included an amendment to repeal the Missouri Compromise. Nebraska was divided into two territories: Nebraska and Kansas.