The Kansas-Nebraska Crisis

As tensions over slavery heated up in the 1850s, Congress decided to allow the citizens living in the Kansas territory to decide for themselves through the ballot whether or not the state would...

The 1858 debates between Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln focused on the slavery question. The nation was increasingly divided, and Kansas was the scene of intense conflict between pro-slavery...

It seems fairly unimaginable that a Congressman would attack a Senator on the floor of the U.S. Capitol building, leaving him injured for a period of three years. In 1856, this was the condition of...

The Kansas-Nebraska Act was a controversial bill that led to further divisions between North and South. The bill allowed for settlers within a territory to make decisions about whether they wanted...

The Lincoln-Douglas debates were born out of recriminations over political decisions such as the Dred Scott case and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. These examples—the former dealing with a landmark...

The significance of Bleeding Kansas is that it showed how divisive the slavery issue was and how passionate people were on both sides of the slavery issue. The Kansas–Nebraska Act was passed in...

After the Missouri Compromise met with problems in implementation, most notably in the balance of power between slave states and free states, the Kansas-Nebraska Act was drawn up to repeal the...

Bleeding Kansas is used to describe the period of violence during the settling of territories in Kansas and Nebraska. In 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed in response to complaints that...

Ashley Kannan has already given voice to the ideological distinctions between Lincoln and Douglas: Douglas being the champion of Popular Sovereignty and Lincoln a moral critic and opponent to...

The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 hastened the onset of Civil War, greatly increasing existing tensions between slave states and free states. Instead of providing a workable solution to the perennial...

Stephen Douglas was a challenging opponent for Abraham Lincoln when the two were running for election to the Senate for the state of Illinois in 1858. Douglas chose the politically expedient...

The 1850s incidents and time period that became known as “Bleeding Kansas” grew out of the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act that governed the legality of slavery in the Western States. A reaction to the...

I think that the statement is not entirely valid. The first point would be that main arguments were presented in the Lincoln- Douglas debates regarding the role of slavery in the nation's future....

Your approach to this subject—the causes of the Civil War (1861–1865)—is a logical one. You could argue that the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) represented the last effort at compromise. Its failure...

Just from this excerpt, you cannot know anything about Lincoln's positions other than Douglas's statement that Lincoln wants slavery abolished. In truth, Lincoln and Douglas believed in some very...

During the series of debates during the summer of 1858, both Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas were faced with the tricky prospect of articulating positions on the issue that was quickly...

Bleeding Kansas is not something that is most closely connected with African American history. It is relevant to African American History because it did help to bring about the Civil War....