The Kansas-Nebraska act made the conditions even worse for our country. This act completely challenged the Missouri Compromise, and it was an ill attempt at unity, that quickly became known as "bleeding Kansas." ... In this election the north came out ahead because Kansas was declared a free state. ... The northerners went Republican, and the southerners went Democratic, which meant that the Whigs were totally abandoned by both parties. ... If I were a northerner back then I would by outraged by the thought of slavery and I would want to make the southern economy suffer. ...

• Word Count: 682
• Approx Pages: 3
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• Grade Level: High School

It was called the Kansas-Nebraska Act. It authorized the creation of Kansas and Nebraska, west of Missouri and Iowa and divided by the 40th parallel. ... This act was sponsored by the Democratic senator Stephen A. ... This act split the Democratic party and destroyed the Whig party also. ... This was what known as "Bleeding Kansas." ...

• Word Count: 1668
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

It was called the Kansas-Nebraska Act. It authorized the creation of Kansas and Nebraska, west of Missouri and Iowa and divided by the 40th parallel. ... This act was sponsored by the Democratic senator Stephen A. ... This act split the Democratic Party and destroyed the Whig party also. ... This was what known as "Bleeding Kansas." ...

• Word Count: 1672
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

From 1837, when Lincoln first attacked slavery as bad politics, his thoughts evolved from thinking that slavery would eventually die out by compromising that southern states could have its slaves without expanding, to 1854, when the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed, as it stated Congress had no right to prohibit the expansion of slavery to federal territories, and this would radicalize Lincoln's idea of a southern conspiracy that threatened the ideas of the Founding Fathers, which gave him a distinct moral conviction and tone to his political argument. ... Lincoln was a member of the cons...

• Word Count: 2007
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Graduate

It was called the Kansas-Nebraska Act. It authorized the creation of Kansas and Nebraska, west of Missouri and Iowa and divided by the 40th parallel. ... This act was sponsored by the Democratic senator Stephen A. ... This act split the Democratic party and destroyed the Whig party also. ... This was what known as "Bleeding Kansas." ...

• Word Count: 2119
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Besides putting the South under the rule of federal soldiers, the Military Reconstruction Act of 1867 required that Southern states to give blacks the vote as a condition of readmittance to the Union. ... Blacks and carpetbaggers gained control of some Southern legislatures. Scalawags were Southerners, former Unionist and Whigs who helped the radical Republicans in the South because they accepted the consequences of the war. ... Butler in the wake of the Kansas-Nebraska crisis. ... Congress passed the Tenure of Office Act in 1867. ...

• Word Count: 1376
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

"Representatives of the northern states claimed that if the southern slaves were mere property, then they should not be counted towards voting representation in Congress (Harrison 1)". ... The northern delegates were afraid that any attempt they made to abolish slavery would have caused the five southern states to refuse to ratify the constitution (Welch 33). ... Most slavery had declined by the late seventeen hundreds, but in the new constitution it was still legal because all of the Northern and Southern delegates had signed the new constitution. ... The invention of the cotton gin made ...

• Word Count: 3329
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