Tell how the Kansas-Nebraska Act caused problems between the North and South.?

Answer 1

The act was a compromise which said a non-slaveholding state could only enter the union with a slave-holding state to balance it out. It kept a few states from entering the union when they were ready because there wasn't a slave-holding state ready to enter with them. In the end, it backfired because a couple of the "slaveholding" states that entered the union during this period weren't really all that "pro-slavery". They simply allowed for it in their constitutions because it meant expedited statehood. But their sympathies towards slavery really weren't that strong. So when the issue was put to the test, the compromise states disappointed the South and ended up siding with the North.

Answer 2

Amount of free states



In 1854 the political truce over slavery ended with the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois proposed the act to set up territorial governments in the Nebraska Territory and to encourage rapid settlement of the region. Douglas and other Northern leaders also hoped to build a transcontinental railroad through their states rather than through the Southern part of the country.

The Nebraska Territory stretched from Texas to Canada and from Missouri west to the Rocky Mountains. Douglas knew that the South did not want to add another free state to the Union. He, therefore, proposed dividing the region into two territories, Nebraska and Kansas. In each territory settlers would decide the issue of slavery by popular sovereignty.

Leaders throughout the South supported the proposal. They believed slaveholders in Missouri would move across the border into Kansas. eventually, Kansas would become a slave state. President Franklin Pierce, a Democrat elected in 1852, also supported Douglas's proposal. With the President's help, Douglas pushed the bill through Congress.

Northerners became outraged. They felt betrayed. Popular sovereignty in Kansa and Nebraska, in effect, canceled the Missouri Compromise. The Kansas-Nebraska Act opened the possibility of new slave states in the West - an area that had been free for more than 30 years.

Answer 3

I will give you a summary.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and opened new lands for settlement, and allowed the settlers to decide whether or not to have slavery.

This was only a band-aid solution to a bigger problem. It would continue to cause problems between North and South in terms how many slave states and how many free states there were in the country. There was constant struggle between the two sides and tried to influence the settlers in those territories to choose sides. This led to what became known as Bleeding Kansas. It was a sequence of violent events involving Free-Staters (anti-slavery) and pro-slavery "Border Ruffians.

The Kansa-Nebraska Act nullified both the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850. It pointed the nation inthe direction of Civil War.