... He wished to heal the wounds of sectionalism between the North and the South with the Kansas-Nebraska Act by focusing the country's attention on the railroad and movement westward. Political pressures greatly shaped the Kansas-Nebraska Act and caused Douglas to make great modifications to his bill. While Southern congressmen wanted a railroad to link the East and West coasts, they opposed the idea ... slavery extension rather than the idea of building a railroad linking the coasts together. Conscience Whigs and Free-Soil Democrats from the North believed the Kansas-Nebraska Act violated ...

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... the competition between the Democratic and Whig party's. This took place in the winter of 1834, when the Whig party took opposition to the democratically elected President, Andrew Jackson. They considered him a tyrant until 1856 when the Republicans permanently displaced the Whig party. They were now the new opponents of the Democrats. The Kansas-Nebraska act of 1854 reopened the possibility of ... slavery's westward spread and committed to defeating democrats in order to drive the so-called southern slave power from control of the national government, the Republicans attracted hundreds ...

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