Nebraska Kansas Act

Andrew

What was it?

• Proposed by Stephen Douglas

• It let the states decide if they wanted to be a slave state or free state

• Made to repeal the Missouri compromise and create more slave states at first

Who supported it?

• Southerners supported it because there could now be slave states above the Mason-Dixon line

• Anti-slavery supporters also supported it because they could end the spread of slavery

Conflict caused

• Angered the southern states because they would no longer have equal say in congress

• Pro slavery and anti slavery settlers rushed to settle Kansas for the vote for slavery

• The pro-slavery settlers won but the anti-slavery settlers but the anti-slavery settlers said the pro-slavery used fraud.

Fighting in Kansas

• Violence erupted between anti and pro slavery supporters

• The death toll rose drastically as a result• The territory earned the nickname Bleeding

Kansas• The anti-slavery supporters were lead by

John Brown

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Kansas accepted as a state

• A constitution was proposed by congress and Kansas was not admitted as a free state

• Eventually the anti-slave supports out numbered the pro-slave supporters and a constitution was drawn up

• On January 29, 1861 Kansas was added to the union as a free state

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Later effects of the act

• The republican party was created by those who opposed slavery

• Lead the country closer to civil war• Split the country in half between the

north(Republican) and south(Democrat)

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