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On this day in 1854, the House approved, 113-100, the Kansas-Nebraska Act. It repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, dampening chances of a peaceful resolution to the issue of slavery.

After the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed in 1854, newly established states could use popular sovereignty to determine the status of slave legality within their borders. This led to violent conflict in ...

The bill proposed organizing the Nebraska territory, which also included an area that would become the state of Kansas. His bill was referred to the Committee of the Territories, which was chaired ...

I thought my comparison of Democratic health care legislation with the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 in my Wednesday Examiner column was an original idea. After all, even David Broder and Lou Cannon ...

On this day in 1854, Abraham Lincoln, as a congressional candidate from Illinois, spoke out against the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which Congress had passed five months earlier. In his speech ...

What made 1854 such a decisive year? Most historians would identify the Kansas-Nebraska Act as a significant marker on the road to war. Authored by Illinois Sen. Stephen Douglas, a proponent of ...