Kansas Nebraska
Act
1854
Kansas-Nebraska Act
the issue of slavery would not die
In 1854, Congress pass an act where people in the area could vote
on whether they wanted to be a free state or a slave state- popular
sovereignty to the areas known as the Kansas and Nebraska
territories.
Northerners were angry because this changed the Missouri
Compromise
This act led to violence as pro-abolition and pro-slavery (free
soilers) forces flooded Kansas to sway the vote, in what
became known as Bloody Kansas.
More than 200 people were killed
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
A Segment of: The American Civil War: The Causes of War