This Day in History - January 4: committee reports to the U.S. Senate a bill creating the Kansas-Nebraska Act January 4, 1854 - A bill introduced by Sen. Stephen Douglas in January, 1854, divided the ...
Repealing an 1820 law banning slavery in territories north of Missouri's southern border, the Kansas-Nebraska Act left both territories (as mapped out in 1855) up for grabs. Library of Congress ...
Ironically, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, passed by Congress 150 years ago this month (100 years to the week before the landmark Supreme Court decision—Brown v. Board of Education—barring school ...