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The Kansas-Nebraska Act

  • William Pierce (the President) signed this act at the end of May 1854
  • It was advance of Midwestern settlement
  • Nebraska becomes a territory
  • Stephen A. Douglas had ideas of a Pacific railroad and organization of Nebraska as ways to promote a continuous line of settlement between the Midwest and the Pacific
  • The Nebraska bill "superseded" the Missouri Compromise and rendered it "void"
  • Nebraska was split into two territories - Kansas and Nebraska
  • The act gave no restrictions on slavery

The Surge of Free Soil

  • Free soilers opposed slavery on moral grounds and rejected racist legislation
  • Others were racist who opposed allowing any African-Americans, slave or free, into the West
  • Free soilers believed the Kansas-Nebraska Act was a move to spread slavery to the entire North

The Whigs Disintegrate

The Collapse of the Second Party System

  • The Kansas-Nebraska Act destroyed the Whig Party
  • Northern Whigs want to blame democrats for the act to persuade free soil democrats to their side
  • In state and congressional elections of 1854, democrats were defeated
  • The Whigs failed to benefit
  • Northern Whigs deeply divided between antislavery Whigs and conservations that were convinced that they must obey to the Compromise of 1850 to maintain itself as a national party
  • Antislavery Whigs wanted to look for a new party
  • By 1856 the new Republican Party would become home for most of these northern refuges from the traditional parties.

The Know-Nothing Party

  • Evolved out of a secret nationalist organization, the Order of the Star-Spangled Banner
  • The Know-Nothings were a political party that lasted about 10 years
  • They advocated the abolition movement
  • They had many former Whigs in their party
  • Mainly in the North
  • The got their name from the response of the members, when asked about is party's activities, they would respond "I know nothing".

The Origins of the Republican Party

  • Created in the aftermath of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
  • Started in the Northern States
  • Won in every election from 1860-1880
  • Almost failed as a party
  • They lasted only because of the violence in Kansas (Bleeding Kansas)
  • Republicans were antislavery

Blake Davidson

Kevin Maeda

James Landrus

Period 1

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