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 ...
January 4, 1854 - A bill introduced by Sen. Stephen Douglas in January, 1854, divided the land west of Missouri into the territories of Kansas and Nebraska with the idea that the territories’ settlers ...
Ironically, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, passed by Congress 150 years ago this month (100 years to the week before the landmark Supreme Court decision—Brown v. Board of Education—barring school ...
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