The Kansas-Nebraska Act, which was seen by Northerners as a pro-Southern act, was passed in 1854 and led to a rush of Northern settlers in the Kansas Territory.

In 1854 the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act served as a catalyst to war and created the conditions that led to the birth of the Republican Party and Lincoln’s political ascendancy.

Nebraska has no Civil War battlegrounds. It wasn't even a state during the war. Perhaps these facts explain why many think, ... The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 represented the tipping point.

The Civil War started in April 1861 and raged for over four years. ... which opposed slavery and the Kansas-Nebraska Act, according to History.com. When Republican, ...

On this day in 1854, the House approved, 113-100, the Kansas-Nebraska Act. It repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, dampening chances of a peaceful resolution to the issue of slavery.

We are now beginning to enter the Kansas-Nebraska Act stage of the socialist crisis of the Republic. At our constitutional founding, the evil of slavery had been crudely evaded.

A Hell of a Storm: The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War David S. Brown. Scribner, $32 (352p) ISBN 978-1-6680-2281-8 ...

On March 20, 1854, a group of anti-slavery activists who opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act met in a schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin. There, they founded the Republican Party, which opposed the ...

The concept of popular sovereignty was key to the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act, as authored by Sen. Stephen Douglas of Illinois. ... the start of the Civil War and the end of slavery in America. ...

The concept of popular sovereignty was key to the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act, as authored by Sen. Stephen Douglas of Illinois. ... the start of the Civil War and the end of slavery in America. ...