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Direct linkKammer, Sean M. – Great Plains Quarterly, 2011
After months of intense debate, Congress finally passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act on May 30, 1854, largely along sectional lines. Over the next several years Kansas Territory became "Bleeding Kansas" as violence erupted between pro-slavery and free-state factions. While scholars continue to debate the true causes of the fighting in Kansas,…
Descriptors: United States History, Slavery, Federal Legislation, Self Determination
