The bill became law on May 30, 1854. Nebraska was so far north that its future as a free state was never in question. But Kansas was next to the slave state of Missouri. In an era that would come ...

Ironically, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, passed by Congress 150 years ... of the new Republican Party, created in 1854 to oppose the spread of slavery. In October, accepting the inevitability of ...

You can enjoy “The Civil War in Kansas” presentation this Thursday evening from 5:30 till 6:30 at the Smoky Hill Museum.

Died: October 8, 1869. Pierce was elected on a platform of maintaining the status quo in regards to the issue of slavery. However, the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) allowed the new territory of ...

The Democrat politician Stephen Douglas had the idea that the new territories of Kansas and Nebraska would choose for themselves whether they would become slave or free states. This meant the old ...