History of the United States I / Unit 14 USH1 1978 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
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The idea
Stephen Douglas introduced the bill in January eighteen fifty-four, creating Kansas west of Missouri and Nebraska west of Iowa, and applying popular sovereignty to both.
In practice
The act repealing the thirty-six degrees thirty minutes line outright.
Where people slip
Congress repealing its own settlement of eighteen twenty is the fact to hold. The line had stood for thirty-four years and was treated as permanent.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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