The Speech that Settled Kansas: Eli Thayer's Rousing LectureMain MenuThayer's Lecture of December 5, 1854About the ProjectEditorial StatementThayer's Rhetorical StyleNewspaper Articles and LettersBibliographyAcknowledgementsMohammad Kasifur Rahmanecb6e3453a6d465de1d876ca12f66a3cf615592b
Missouri Compromise
12020-04-12T21:04:35-07:00Mohammad Kasifur Rahmanecb6e3453a6d465de1d876ca12f66a3cf615592b337333“Bleeding Kansas,” History.com. https://www.history.com/topics/19th-century/bleeding-kansas. Accessed 10 March, 2020.plain2020-04-12T21:09:26-07:00Mohammad Kasifur Rahmanecb6e3453a6d465de1d876ca12f66a3cf615592bThe Missouri Compromise of 1820 had postponed a decision on the issue of slavery when Congress accepted Missouri to the Union as a slave state but also admitting Maine as a free state that prohibited slavery. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, however, repealed the compromise and declared that “popular sovereignty” – that is the inhabitants’ own opinions in every new territory – should decide whether they wanted to allow slavery within their state’s borders or not.
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