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The role of Kansas-Nebraska Act in the history of the United States of America. ... The passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act exerted a tremendous impact, which included:
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Kansas-Nebraska Act, bill that became law on May 30, 1854, by which the U.S. Congress established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. By 1854 the organization of the vast Platte and Kansas river countries W of Iowa and Missouri was overdue.
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Kansas-Nebraska Act: Primary Documents of American History (Virtual Services and Programs, Digital Reference Section, Library of Congress) ... The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise, allowing slavery in the territory north of the 36° 30´ latitude.
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www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/kansas.html
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Abraham Lincoln emerged from his self-imposed political retirement in 1854 soon after the Kansas-Nebraska Act became law. In that act Illinois' Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas had attempted to organize the vast Nebraska territory for settlement and the passage of a transcontinental railroad.
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Kansas-Nebraska Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In United States history, the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands, repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and allowed settlers in those te...
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What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act? ... The Kansas-Nebraska Act was a bill that, like the Compromise of 1850, dealt with the problem of slavery in new territories. A bill is a document before it is passed by Congress to be made into a law.
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The Kansas-Nebraska act repeal of the ban on slavery in Northern territories galvanized angry opposition. All over the North "anti-Nebraska" rallies took place in the summer of 1854, leading to the formation of the Republican party that year.
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www.civilwarhome.com/kansasnebraska.htm
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Senator Douglas from Illinois introduced a bill called the Kansas-Nebraska Act. This act created 2 new territories, the Kansas Territory and the Nebraska Territory out of the land that the railroad would travel through.
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www.mce.k12tn.net/civil_war/kansasnebraska_act.htm
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