...This chapter describes the impact of the Kansas Nebraska Act on Northerner’s political assumptions. The violence in the Kansas Territory that resulted from the imposition of popular sovereignty drove Northerners to make difficult choices about the best path to securing political stability. The 1856...

... thesis. It concludes with a historiographical overview of the thesis and the role played by the F Street Mess in the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Campbell John A Confederate Government Davis Jefferson Friendship Grant Ulysses S Hampton Roads Conference Hunter Robert Mercer Taliaferro...

... sectional peace. His nationalist statements on issues such as the future of Cuba also helped his popularity. But then the Kansas-Nebraska Act shattered that peace and derailed Everett’s political rise. His effort to forge a conservatively antislavery reaction to Kansas-Nebraska failed to win the support...

... of slaveholders’ federal clout. This context elucidates Douglas’s infamous Kansas-Nebraska Act. Striving to align powerful southern Democrats behind his efforts to promote the Greater Northwest, Douglas pushed the Act through Congress—and unleashed a political cyclone that devastated the Democratic Party’s...

... and prostitution to describe the spread of slavery into Kansas. Sumner also accused several prominent Democrats of crimes against the territory, including the architect of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Illinois senator Stephen A. Douglas, President Franklin Pierce, and Brooks's cousin, Andrew P. Butler. Elderly...

... represented great possibility for abolitionist forces even as restrictive legislation such as the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas–Nebraska Act, and the Dred Scott decision became law. Black writers integrated themselves more fully into the language of nationhood, a project that began...