Kansas-Nebraska Act
The
Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise,
allowing slavery in the territory north of the 36° 30´ latitude.
Introduced by Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois, the
Kansas-Nebraska Act stipulated that the issue of slavery
would be decided by the residents of each territory, a
concept known as popular sovereignty. After the bill passed
on May 30, 1854, violence erupted in Kansas between pro-slavery
and anti-slavery settlers, a prelude
to the Civil War.
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Bibliography
Abraham
Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress
Abraham
Lincoln wrote a draft resolution in the Illinois
General Assembly on January 4, 1855, concerning the
repeal of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Search
Lincoln's Papers using the phrase "Kansas
Nebraska" to find additional documents related
to the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
An
American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides
and Other Printed Ephemera
Contains a broadside
from Massachusetts printed in 1854 soliciting support
for the anti-slavery settlers in Kansas. Search this
collection to locate additional broadsides and printed
ephemera on Kansas in the 1850s.
A
Century of Lawmaking for a Nation
On May 22, 1854, the House
of Representatives passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act
by a vote of 113 to 100. The
Senate passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act by a vote 35
to 13 on May 25, 1854. The appendix of the Congressional
Globe, 33rd Congress, 1st Session, contains the final
Senate debate on the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Search
in the 33rd Congress using the phrase "Kansas Nebraska"
to find more documents related to the Kansas-Nebraska
Act.
The
Nineteenth Century in Print
This collection contains a wide variety of Nineteenth
Century books and periodicals on the Kansas-Nebraska
Act and the conflict in Kansas during the 1850s. For
example, speeches by Herman
Humphrey and Theodore
Parker on the Kansas-Nebraska Act can be viewed in
this collection. Search The Nineteenth
Century in Print using the word "Kansas" to
find additional books and periodicals on this subject.
From
Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection,
1824-1909
Senator
Charles Sumner, a leading opponent of slavery in
the Congress, delivered a speech on February 21, 1854,
against the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Jump
Back in Time: Kansas Entered the Union as a Free State,
January 29, 1861.
April
23, 1813
U.S. congressman, senator, and presidential candidate
Stephen A. Douglas was born in Brandon, Vermont, on April
23, 1813. Douglas sponsored the Kansas-Nebraska Act in
1854.
January
29, 1861
Kansas entered the Union as a free state on January
29, 1861.
The
Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Rise of the Republican party,
1854-1856, Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization
Project, Northern Illinois University
Our
Documents, The Kansas-Nebraska Act, National Archives
and Records Administration
Territorial
Kansas Online, 1854-1861, Kansas State Historical Society
and University of Kansas
Goodrich, Thomas. War to the Knife:
Bleeding Kansas, 1854-1861.
Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 1998. [Catalog
Record]
Malin, James C. The Nebraska Question,
1852-1854. Lawrence,
Kans., 1953. [Catalog
Record]
Wolff, Gerald W. The Kansas-Nebraska
Bill: Party, Section, and the Coming of the Civil War. New York: Revisionist
Press, 1977. [Catalog
Record]
McArthur, Debra. The Kansas-Nebraska
Act and "Bleeding
Kansas" in American History. Berkeley Heights, N.J.:
Enslow, 2003. [Catalog
Record]
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