It would allow the people of each new state to vote on whether to be slave or free - so-called Popular Sovereignty.
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.
The idea was called 'Popular Sovereignty', a phrase coined by Stephen Douglas, and it was the basis for the Kansas-Nebraska Act. It sounded reasonable enough. But it suffered from one fatal flaw. It meant one state voting at a time - so that one state would become a magnet for every bully-boy from both sides, to try to sway the voting through violence, intimidation and corruption. When it was tried, in Kansas, the result went down in history as 'Bleeding Kansas'.
first was the sugar act in 1764. after that was the stamp act in 1765. and after that was the townshen act.... so the answer is the Townshen Act. <3 C;
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Nebraska had less problems than Kansas so Nebraska is a better state
it was troubling be ause the war
The most controversial aspect of the Kansas-Nebraska act was the doctrine of popular sovereignty, as this caused fighting between proslavery and antislavery forces over control of the territories.
Because it could have allowed some extension of slavery.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was created in 1854. It created territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new land for settlement and allowed white male settlers in those territories to determine whether slavery would be allowed.
The most controversial aspect of the Kansas-Nebraska act was the doctrine of popular sovereignty, as this caused fighting between proslavery and antislavery forces over control of the territories.
The most controversial aspect of the Kansas-Nebraska act was the doctrine of popular sovereignty, as this caused fighting between proslavery and antislavery forces over control of the territories.
So the region would become a slave-free state
The Kansas-Nebraska ActThe Kansas-Nebraska act was enforced buy Stephen Douglas. Abe Lincoln did not like the idea though so he fought against him for the rites and Abe won!
The most controversial aspect of the Kansas-Nebraska act was the doctrine of popular sovereignty, as this caused fighting between proslavery and antislavery forces over control of the territories.
That line was made obsolete. The new arrangemen was meant to be local voting on slavery in the new states of Kansas and Nebraska.
The compromise of 1850 revisits the long time argument concerning which states should be free and which states should be able to have slaves. Prior to that (and the Kansas Nebraska Act) the Missouri Compromise of 1820 had established a sort of line to divide all the slave states from the free. The Kansas Nebraska act had undone all the effort put into the Missouri Compromise and it allowed for attention so shift back to the issue of slavery. The Missouri Compromise had basically delayed that issue and the Kansas Nebraska Act and The Compromise of 1850 touched up on an increasingly sensitive topic which fuels the first sparks which lead to the Civil War.