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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Kansas-Nebraska Act"”.
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David Rice Atchison, Southern Spokesman: 1844-1855
… represented one of the most radical southern factions in Congress. He accomplished his greatest feat in 1854 by securing passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. When he returned home to face re-election, he lost in Missouri's General Assembly. This work examined the electoral returns of Missouri …
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Popular sovereignty, slavery in the territories, and the South, 1785-1860
… late 1840s and culminating with passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854, but have not recognized its significance in earlier debates over slavery. Popular sovereignty, which took various forms and received different definitions, appeared as a potential solution to the problem of slavery …
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The Fugitive Slave Law, Antislavery and the Emergence of the Republican Party in Indiana
… the Southern slave states was the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. For decades slaveholders had complained of the difficulties encountered in reclaiming their fugitive slaves and demanded stronger legislation to deal with the problem. Northerners, however, did not believe that national legislation on …
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The Antislavery Movement in Iowa, 1833-1860
139 leaves
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A Peculiar Place for the Peculiar Institution: Slavery and Sovereignty in Early Territorial Utah
… first Utah Territorial legislature passed “An Act in Relation to Service" that legalized slavery in Utah. This action was prompted primarily by the need to regulate slavery and contextualize its practice within the Mormon belief system. Ironically, had Congress known of Utah's slave population, …
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Surveying and the ecology of belonging in the nineteenth-century United States
… the medium of land, they had an understated impact on the formation of citizenship and civic belonging as it related to property ownership; nor was this impact lost on many Americans. In this dissertation project, I argue that land surveyors have played an outsized yet understudied role in the …