Abolitionist settlers, known as "Jayhawkers" moved from the East with express purpose of making Kansas a free state. A clash between the opposing sides was inevitable.
Hopeful that the people of Kansas and Nebraska might vote for slavery in those states.
they did not allow slavery
They opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act because they were against the expansion of slavery into new states.
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True. Senator Charles Sumner was an abolitionist who strongly opposed slavery. He gave a famous speech condemning the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the extension of slavery into new territories.
Hopeful that the people of Kansas and Nebraska might vote for slavery in those states.
The Kansas - Nebraska Act
Kansas-Nebraska act
they did not allow slavery
Slaves
Kansas and Nebraska
Kansas and Nebraska were created after the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. The reason for this Act was to open new farmland and create a Transcontinental Railroad.
Stephan A. Douglas proposed the Kansas Nebraska Act in 1854.
The Missouri Compromise was effectively ended by the Kansas-Nebraska Act, however since there was still turmoil as to the "Bleeding Kansas" dispute, it was thought that the Kansas-Nebraska Act would be shortly overturned. The Dred Scott decision by the Supreme Court further strengthened the elimination of the Missouri Compromise and the institution of slavery north of the Mason-Dixon Line by ruling that slaves were not able to take cases to court.
Stephen Douglas
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 called for "popular sovereignty."