When the territory of Missouri applied for admission to statehood ... (This limitation was later overturned by the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act and by the 1857 Dred Scott case, 19 How.

The Compromise ... 1854. Nebraska was so far north that its future as a free state was never in question. But Kansas was next to the slave state of Missouri. In an era that would come to be ...

Ironically, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, passed by Congress 150 years ... Yet by repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which had outlawed slavery everywhere in the Louisiana Purchase north ...

Major Acts: The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether to allow slavery within their borders, nullified the Missouri ...

This meant the old Missouri Compromise was no longer legal. Southerners loved the idea Northerners hated it Kansas and Nebraska became a battle ground Anti-slavery leaders formed the Republican ...