1854+G

1854Kansas-Nebraska Act: 1854: Douglas’s Kansas-Nebraska bill Apply popular sovereignty to Kansas, Nebraska Repeal Missouri Compromise line Act passes on sectional vote Northerners outraged, Democratic party split (Leading up to conflicts between Northern and Southern States)

[|Kansas-Nebraska Act], 1854 -repeals the Missouri Compromise of 1820 -Stepehen Douglas's attempt to and renews tensions between anti- and proslavery factions -decision based on popular sovereignty -Bleeding Kansas

**Kansas-Nebraska Act**

 * This act created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska
 * The bill was proposed by Stephen A Douglas.
 * This act applied the principle of **popular sovereignty** to voters in the Kansas and Nebraska territories, allowing them to decide for themselves whether to permit slavery in their territories.
 * This act repudiates the Missouri Compromise of 1820
 * And hence, the Northerners were infuriated by this Act as it permitted slavery onto previously prohibited territory.
 * Whigs died out and the Democrats split into two.

SO HOW WAS THIS A CAUSE OF THE CIVIL WAR?

**Congressional Election of 1854**
 * Democrats became the only Southern party
 * Free Soil Party became stronger and became Republicans
 * Parties in order of greatest number of representatives to least: Democratic Party, Whig Party, Republican Party, American Party, Other

SO HOW WAS THIS A CAUSE OF THE CIVIL WAR?


 * American party surges - Know-Nothings**

SO HOW WAS THIS A CAUSE OF THE CIVIL WAR?
 * The **Know Nothing** movement was a [|nativist] [|American] political movement of the 1850s. It was empowered by popular fears that the country was being overwhelmed by [|Irish Catholic] [|immigrants], who were often regarded as hostile to US values and controlled by the [|Pope] in [|Rome]. Mainly active from 1854–56, it strove to curb [|immigration] and[|naturalization], though its efforts met with little success.

The **Anthony Burns case** Anti-Nebraska American party surges - Know-Nothings