Discuss the controversy over the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854.
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois proposed a bill to organize the territory west of Missouri and Iowa with the slavery issue to be decided using the process of popular sovereignty.
2. The territory fell within the area where the Missouri Compromise banned slavery, so to gain
southern support an amendment explicitly repealing the Missouri Compromise was added.
3. Although the bill passed the Senate by a large margin and the House by a narrow margin, it split the Democratic Party, with half of northern Democrats in the House voting against the legislation.
4. New England ministers described the bill as a sinful surrender to the slave power.
5. Many northerners saw the Kansas-Nebraska Act as an abomination because it permitted the
possibility of slavery in an area where it had been prohibited.
6. The bill repudiated a compromise that many in the North regarded as a binding sectional compact and defied the whole compromise tradition, making future compromises less likely.
7. It gave a concession to the South, the extension of slavery, without an equivalent concession to the North, leaving northern sectionalists in the position to fight to regain what they felt they had lost.
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