He therefore bowed to Southern wishes and proposed a bill for organizing Nebraska-Kansas which stated that the slavery question would be decided by popular sovereignty. He assumed that settlers ...

An Act to Prohibit Slavery in Kansas: Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of Kansas Territory: SECTION 1. That Slavery or involuntary servitude, except for the punishment of ...

John Brown is one of the most polarizing figures in American history. But it was an experience in his youth that seared an ...

Repealing an 1820 law banning slavery in territories north of Missouri's southern border, the Kansas-Nebraska Act left both territories (as mapped out in 1855) up for grabs. Library of Congress ...

In 1828, when Andrew Jackson was elected president, he promised to expand the United States westward. His justification for expansion seemed to him self-evident, for "What good man would prefer a ...

If Senator Stephen Arnold (“Little Giant”) Douglas and President James Buchanan had not quarreled over slavery in Kansas, a united Democracy would have nominated Douglas for President at ...

Under pressure from the South and its Democratic allies in the North, Congress opened the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to slavery under a concept called "popular sovereignty." The more ...

the Lecompton Constitution with slavery was approved in a public vote in which free-staters did not participate, and Stanton was removed from office. Stanton and his family would stay in Kansas ...

and will talk about the effects of slavery, tariffs, taxation, expansion, the election of Lincoln, Bloody Kansas and much more showing the reasons why a number of states seceded from the Union and ...

who fought alongside John Brown in Kansas; Isaac Mayer Wise, who advised American Jews to keep their heads down and take no sides in the debate over slavery; Morris Raphall, a rabbi who defended ...