Headline
POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY
Author
Kate V.
Justification
This topic that I have chosen was important enough to include in the website because it allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Kansas-Nebraska Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
Topic
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed on May 30, 1854 by the U.S. Congress. Senator Stephen A. Douglas from Illinois sponsored the Kansas Nebraska act. It was also a 1854 bill that mandated “popular sovereignty” this allowed settlers to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state’s borders of their territories. The Kansas-Nebraska act overturned the Missouri Compromise of 1820’s use of latitude as the boundary between slave and free territory.The act passed Congress, but it failed in its purposes. By the time Kansas was admitted to statehood in 1861 after an internal civil war, southern states had begun to secede from the Union. The north and south were in an uneasy balance, Kansas and Nebraska started more problems.
North Perspective
Most of the Northern population didn’t want slavery although there was one certain person who did. The Senator of Illinois Stephen A. Douglas wanted Nebraska made into a territory as well have support from the South by having Kansas support slavery. He also wanted to build a transcontinental railroad to go through Chicago. The Northern territory of the sacred 36°30' line was now open to popular sovereignty and they were outraged because the bill was finally passed May of 1854. They felt that if the Compromise of 1820 was ignored so would the Compromise of 1850. Northern whigs ended up opposing the bill and they reorganized themselves to be the Republican Party.
South Perspective
Most of the Southern population wanted slavery besides the slaves of course. The southern states had begun to secede from the Union and they became democrats.The South won two states to be on there side. The two states were Kansas and Nebraska, they opened up to slavery. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 had prevented this from happening. The railroad that the Illinois Senator Stephen A. Douglas wanted was eventually built but not along his route and with funds voted by a Republican Congress during a Republican Civil War administration. The South ended up getting more out of the act than the North did.
Outside websites
http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/kansas.htm
http://www.history.com/topics/kansas-nebraska-act
POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY
Author
Kate V.
Justification
This topic that I have chosen was important enough to include in the website because it allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Kansas-Nebraska Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
Topic
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed on May 30, 1854 by the U.S. Congress. Senator Stephen A. Douglas from Illinois sponsored the Kansas Nebraska act. It was also a 1854 bill that mandated “popular sovereignty” this allowed settlers to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state’s borders of their territories. The Kansas-Nebraska act overturned the Missouri Compromise of 1820’s use of latitude as the boundary between slave and free territory.The act passed Congress, but it failed in its purposes. By the time Kansas was admitted to statehood in 1861 after an internal civil war, southern states had begun to secede from the Union. The north and south were in an uneasy balance, Kansas and Nebraska started more problems.
North Perspective
Most of the Northern population didn’t want slavery although there was one certain person who did. The Senator of Illinois Stephen A. Douglas wanted Nebraska made into a territory as well have support from the South by having Kansas support slavery. He also wanted to build a transcontinental railroad to go through Chicago. The Northern territory of the sacred 36°30' line was now open to popular sovereignty and they were outraged because the bill was finally passed May of 1854. They felt that if the Compromise of 1820 was ignored so would the Compromise of 1850. Northern whigs ended up opposing the bill and they reorganized themselves to be the Republican Party.
South Perspective
Most of the Southern population wanted slavery besides the slaves of course. The southern states had begun to secede from the Union and they became democrats.The South won two states to be on there side. The two states were Kansas and Nebraska, they opened up to slavery. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 had prevented this from happening. The railroad that the Illinois Senator Stephen A. Douglas wanted was eventually built but not along his route and with funds voted by a Republican Congress during a Republican Civil War administration. The South ended up getting more out of the act than the North did.
Outside websites
http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/kansas.htm
http://www.history.com/topics/kansas-nebraska-act