The Kansas-Nebraska act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It was introduced by Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois. It enabled people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide if they wanted slavery or not in their borders. The act helped to reverse the Missouri Compromise of 1820 (My Notes). Which banned slavery north of 36°30’ N latitude, the line that limited slavery (http://www.history.com/topics/kansas-nebraska-act). Douglas called this “popular sovereignty.” “Before the law they would not have been free, giving the free states more votes in the Senate and angering the South,” (Discovering our Pasts;The History of the United States Early Years, P.431). In 1855, a pro-slavery government was elected in Kansas. …show more content…
“Supporters of both sides rushed to Kansas.” “Armed pro-slavery supporters known as border ruffians crossed the border from Missouri just to vote,”(Discovering our Pasts;The History of the United States Early Years, P.432).
All though only 1500 people lived in Kansas, 6,000 votes were cast. The pro-slavery group won. Kansas authorise laws supporting slavery. Slavery opponents did not accept the laws. They equip themselves, held their own elections, and support a constitution banning slavery. By January 1856, Kansas had two new opponents in government. All of these events link up to the birth of the Republican Party because the disagreement over the Kansas-Nebraska Act caused the old Whig Party to break up which caused the Republican Party to form. After the party proslavery southerners attacked the abolitionists and refused to let them vote which started the abolitionists to revolt which also created the republican …show more content…
party. The birth of the Republican Party’s sole purpose was to stop slavery.
It was formed by Northern Whigs and Democrats in 1854 (Mr.Adreons notes). In its first year it was controlling the House of Representatives and several other state governments. By 1860, it controlled the presidency (Mr.Adreons notes). The Republicans swiftly gained supporters by the North. In 1856 their first presidential candidate, John C. Fremont, won eleven out of sixteen Northern States. By 1860, the majority of Southern states that supported slavery were publicly threatening secession if the Republicans won the election. In November 1860, Republican Abraham Lincoln over a divided Democratic Party. Six weeks later, South Carolina seceded from the Union. Within six more weeks, five other southern states had copied South Carolina’s lead (http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/republican-party-founded.) In extension to forming states governments, the American people had to form a national government. People agreed the new country should be republic, a government in which the people rule through elected representatives. They disagreed, however on what powers the new republic’s government should have. At first, most Americans wanted a weak central government only to wage war and handle relations with other countries. The birth of the Republican Party caused Abraham Lincoln to challenge Stephen Douglas to debates. If it was not for the Republican Party Abraham Lincoln would have never debated Stephen
Douglas and he would have never became known to win the presidency. In 1858, Abraham Lincoln challenged Stephen Douglas for the Senate seat in Illinois. A wave of debates take place all across Illinois (Mr.Adreon Notes.) What is frequently looked over is that the debates were part of a larger campaign, that they were created to reach certain immediate political objectives. Also that they showed the characteristics of mid-nineteenth century political oratory (http://www.history.com/topics/lincoln-douglas-debates.) Lincoln and Douglas debated seven times. The conflict took place in Illinois cities and villages through August, September, and October of 1858. Thousands of observers came to the debates. Newspapers gave wide coverage. The main subject of discussion, was slavery. During the debates at freeport, Lincoln pressed Douglas about his views on popular sovereignty. Lincoln asked whether the people of a territory could legally exclude slavery before becoming a state. Douglas responded that voters could disbar slavery by declining to pass laws that defended the rights of slaveholders. Douglas’s answer, which became known as the freeport Doctrine, pleased anti-slavery followers, although it did cost Douglas support in the South. He said that Lincoln wanted African-Americans to be as equal as whites were. Lincoln contradicted this. But, Lincoln insisted that African-Americans should be able to enjoy rights and freedoms. Later in the 1858 election, Southerners felt intimidated by Republicans (Discovering our Pasts;The History of the United States Early Years, P. 436-437.) Abraham lost these debates and it is a good thing he did because if Lincoln did win the Lincoln-Douglas debates then he would not have won the election of 1860. Four men ran for the presidency of 1860, due to the split in the Democratic Party. Abraham Lincoln was a Republican and an abolitionist, Stephen Douglas was a Northern Democrat for popular sovereignty, John Breckinridge was a Southern Democrat who was in the Dred Scott Decision, and John Bell a Constitutional Union Party and had no position on slavery (Mr.Adreons Notes). The democratic party met in April 1860, in Charleston, South Carolina. The tradition body was part between Northerners, who supported popular sovereignty, and Southerners, who needed the Democratic Party to preserve the privilege to hold slaves. The tradition rejected the Southern request and the Southern representatives exited. The Northern individuals then attempted to assign Stephen Douglas as their candidate. Be that as it may, with the Southern delegate no longer present they did not have the two third votes expected to choose a gathering chosen one. The Democrats met again in Baltimore. At the end of the day the tradition halted, and the Southern agents excited. The Northerners felt free to select Douglas. The Southerners came back to Charleston and assigned Vice President John Breckinridge to speak to the gathering they now called the “National Democrats”. The Party soon turned to Abraham Lincoln of Illinois. Lincoln won the assignment on the third ballot. The republican stage contradicted subjugation in the domains, however maintained the privilege of bondage in the South. It likewise contradicted the Dred-Scott decision. Moreover, so as to pick up support from the previous Whigs the Republicans stood up to champion Federal support for national changes. This included support for the working of the Transcontinental Railroad. A fourth political party was set up by the individuals who wanted to preserve slavery, additionally protect the Union. They were known as the “Established Union gathering”. They chose John Bell to be their presidential chosen one. The Republicans were joined behind Lincoln, while alternate gatherings were partitioned by locales. The majority of the battle was actualized by the gathering associations. Right now, presidential competitors took a little part in dynamic crusading. Stephen Douglas turned into the main presidential competitor in history to embrace an across the nation talking visit. He headed out toward the South. Douglas did not hope to win numerous discretionary votes in the South. He talked about the significance of keeping up the Union. In the 1860 crusade, the presidential challenge was a result two challenges. One challenge was amongst Douglas and Lincoln in the North and the West. The other challenge was amongst Breckinridge and bell in the South. The Republicans ran an exceptionally vivacious battle. Their better association won the day. Lincoln won the day. Lincoln won reasonable lion’s share of the discretionary vote (http://www.historycentral.com/elections/1860.html). He got 180 of 303 electoral votes, 40% of popular vote, he did not appear mostly on Southern Ballot, and on December 20, 1860 South Carolina secedes (Mr.Adreons Notes). This causes the Civil War because the Election of 1860 causes the South to secede and when the South does then it is a different country (Confederate States of America) and then they go to war with the U.S.
It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´. Results of the Kansas-Nebraska Act were numerous and for the most part fatal to the country. The Act caused the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 to be virtually nullified, and caused compromising between the North and the South to be nearly impossible in the future.
Tempers raged and arguments started because of the Missouri Compromise. The simple act caused many fatal events because of what was changed within the United States. It may not seem like a big thing now, but before slavery had been abolished, the topic of slavery was an idea that could set off fights. The Missouri Compromise all started in late in 1819 when the Missouri Territory applied to the Union to become a slave state. The problem Congress had with accepting Missouri as a slave state was the new uneven count of free states and slave states. With proslavery states and antislavery states already getting into arguments, having a dominant number of either slave or free states would just ignite the flame even more. Many representatives from the north, such as James Tallmadge of New York, had already tried to pass another amendment that would abolish slavery everywhere. Along with other tries to eliminate slavery, his effort was soon shot down. The fact that people couldn’t agree on whether or not slavery should be legalized made trying to compose and pass a law nearly impossible.
It also gave the South another slave state in Missouri and the north a free state in Maine. Although each region gained a state in the Senate, the south benefited most from the acquisition because Missouri was in such a pivotal position in the country, right on the border. Later on with the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854, Missouri had a big role in getting Kansas to vote south because many proslavery Missourians crossed the border into Kansas to vote slavery. The Missouri Compromise also helped slavery because the line that was formed to limit slavery had more land below the line than above it. Therefore, slavery was given more land to be slave and therefore more power in the Senate, when the territories became state.
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act was one of the first events that demonstrated Lincoln’s disapproval yet tolerance for slavery. The Kansas-Nebraska Act, proposed by Stephen A. Douglas and signed by Franklin Pierce, divided the region into two territories. The territory north of the 40th parallel was the Kansas Territory and the south of the 40th parallel was the Nebraska Territory, the controv...
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act was a great victory for the south. The greatest benefit to the south was the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, which established the sacred 36-30 line. If the Missouri Compromise had stayed in place, there would have been no more possibility for the expansion of slavery, since there was no land left south of the 36-30 line; under the Missouri Compromise southern expansion was hampered by the existence of the Gulf of Mexico. As a result of the line being repealed, it was possible for slavery to exist in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska because of popular sovereignty.
In the 1790s, soon after the ratification of the Constitution, political parties were nonexistent in the USA because President Washington feared they would drive the country apart. However, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton, with their rivalling mental models, could not help but spark the division of the United States into the Democratic-Republican and Federalist parties. These parties, the Democratic-Republican wanting a small, local government system and the Federalist wanting a strong, powerful government system, turned citizens against one another and eventually led to the inimical Democratic and Republican parties of today. Hence, the formation of the original political parties in the United States is very significant. Political
In 1819, Alabama was admitted to the United States as a slave state, which made the number of representatives in the United States Senate for free states and slave states equal. Then, in 1820, both Missouri and Maine wanted to be admitted to the United States and there was a debate as to if either of the states would be slave states. Maine was admitted as a free state, and Missouri was admitted as a state without restrictions on slavery. Instead of Missouri being a free state, it was decided that all the land in the Louisiana Purchase that was north of 36°30’N latitude, slavery would be prohibited. This provision was held until 1854, when the Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed it.
On December 14, 1853, Augustus C. Dodge of Iowa introduced a bill in the Senate. The bill proposed organizing the Nebraska territory, which also included an area that would become the state of Kansas. His bill was referred to the Committee of the Territories, which was chaired by Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois.
Stephen A. Douglas, an American Politician, wanting to appeal to his supporters, decided to create a northern transcontinental railroad route cutting through the territory of Illinois. However, there was one issue with this plan: the railroad with which it needed to cross through needed to be organized as a state. In attempt to gain the support of the South, Douglas combined the Kansas and Nebraska states where popular sovereignty would be practiced. This meant that instead of the state allowing or disallowing slavery, the people would decide whether slavery should be practiced. This act, known as the Kansas-Nebraska Act, directly violated the Compromise of 1820, which stated that new states created above latitude 36°30’ would have to be free.
The Southern states and Northern democrats heavily supported slavery, whereas many Republicans opposed it; so when a Republican by the name of Abraham Lincoln took office as President in 1860,
When the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed in 1854, it also repealed the Compromise of 1820 and the Missouri Compromise of 1850, which kept the Union from falling apart for almost thirty-four years ("Kansas-Nebraska"). With these compromises replaced the borderline between slave and free territories were repealed. However, the new bill made by Douglas allowed Kansas to decide on slavery using popular sovereignty, which was the popular vote of the settlers in a territory ("Secession"). The bill also opened the land for settlement. To conclude, the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 replaced two major bills and used popular sovereignty to decide on whether slavery would be in Kansas or not.
In 1856 Lincoln joined the republican party. In 1857 the supreme court declared African Americans were not citizens. In 1860 Lincoln ran for president and one. Lincoln's nomination was due to his view on slavery. In 1891 7 Southern States had seceded from the union because Lincoln's view on slavery.