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The Act allowed for the creation of new slave-states, if the local population voted for it.
A new territory, Kansas, would likely become a slave state.
A new territory, Kansas, would likely become a slave state
Since there was no way to influence voters in territories that would become states, the Kansas-Nebraska Act was a neutral one. How citizens would vote could not be accurately predicted.
The civil rights act of 1875.
South Carolina threatened to secede in 1833 with the Nullification Act.
The Reconstruction Acts divided the south into five military districts. Each district was commanded by a general, which would serve as the acting government for the region.
The Whig Party (whose final collapse was the result of the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854 - since Southern Whigs joined the Democrats in supporting it, but Northern Whigs opposed it)
In March 1867 the Congress passed a Reconstruction Act that imposed its desired version of reconstruction on the South. Ten former Confederate states were grouped into five military districts. Each district was ruled by a military governor provided with large powers to compel those states to set up conventions to amend their constitutions as to properly conform with the Constitution of the United States, including the Fourteenth Amendment. After those stages had been completed, the aforesaid states would have been readmitted to the Union as well as their representatives in the Federal Congress.