Kansas-Nebraska Act

The Kansas- Nebraska Act was 1854. The south thought it wasn’t fair for there to be more free states than slave states. The south thought this because, Kansas and Nebraska territories were above the 36 30 parallel, by geography they were part of the north but if they wanted slavery they could have it. All they had to do was vote on whether they wanted to be slave or free states. This would repeal the Missouri Compromise. The Republican Party was created in response to the Kansas- Nebraska Act. Their goal was to stop the spread of slavery into the new states and territories. They wanted to make the industries more modernized. This caused a lot of tension between the North and South. Look for my next post on the Dred Scott Case.