He had to appease the South by allowing some possibility of new slave-states, so that they would feel co-operative towards Congress, and vote funds for the new coast-to-coast railroad, even though it would pass through Chicago, and not New Mexico, as they had been hoping.
Stephen Douglas
Stephen Douglas
Congress. It was tabled by Stephen Douglas.
Stephen Douglas - a popular platform orator known as the 'Little Giant'.
underestimating the depth of northern opposition to the spread of slavery
Stephen Douglas
Stephan A. Douglas proposed the Kansas Nebraska Act in 1854.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
Stephen A. Douglas
stephen douglas
Stephen Douglas
(Stephen A. Douglas)
Stephen Douglas
Stephen Douglas
That was Stephen Douglas, the 'Little Giant'.
Douglas wanted to abandon the Missouri Compromise because he wanted to put in place his own Kansas- Nebraska Act. This act would expand railroads and allow territories to choose for themselves if they wanted to be free or slave states.
Yes. He introduced it.