Articles related to "Kansas Nebraska Act"

Concessions to the South enabled passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act but resulted in outrage that led to political realignments and the formation of the Republican Party.

Kansas-Nebraska Act sets stage for bloody violence between proslavery and free-soil fractions. Border Ruffians invade Kansas.

Franklin Pierce became President at a time of apparent calm. Thanks to the Compromise of 1850, the United States seemed to have weathered a possible crisis.

After his one term in Congress ended in 1848, Abraham Lincoln became bored with politics. Several years later, controversial legislation would reignite his passion.

Prior to the official start of the Civil War, bloody battle break out in Kansas Territory between Free State and proslavery groups.

Historian Lewis E. Lehrman reveals the speech that defined Lincoln's convictions about slavery in his opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Act sponsored by Stephen Douglas.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act was intended to be a compromise but instead outraged the North, gave America the Republican Party, "Bleeding Kansas," and led to civil war.

Abraham Lincoln's victory in the 1860 presidential election ensured that the divisions between North and South could not be resolved.

A compromise between North and South concerning Missouri postponed sectional animosity and temporarily avoided civil war.

Franklin Pierce presided over some of the most crucial years in American history - the years which many see as those which may have led America directly toward a Civil Wa

Timesonline recently ranked the presidents. Among the worst were Fillmore, Pierce, and Buchanan, all of whom served in the 1850's. Why so much futility in one decade?

Abraham Lincoln had already established himself as a powerful public speaker by 1854. In 1858, he delivered a speech that sealed this reputation and moved the nation.

Lincoln's Melancholy is a very original book, offering a psychological biography on Abraham Lincoln and an explanation of his greatness.

This book by Roy Morris, Jr. is a unique take on the political career of Lincoln, which was greatly influenced by Douglas.

New President Andrew Johnson was thrust into power and forced to find a way to unite a sharply divided country. The result, however, was his political downfall.

Despite a successful political road leading up to becoming President, Buchanan was forced to face some of the worst crises America has ever seen; a ask at which he failed

Beginning in 1847, Abraham Lincoln entered national politics, and quickly made a name for himself for his personal convictions and blunt honesty.

Andrew Johnson, who took over the Presidency after Lincoln's assassination, was born in poverty, but worked his way up quickly up the political ladder.

Abolitionist John Brown, in 1856, led the mob that massacred five suspected pro-slavery men at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas.

Nativism, strongest in the American Northeast, affected political realignments during the early and mid 1850s through the American or "Know Nothing" Party.

Many factors enabled a fledgling Republican Party to capture the White House in 1860 but a chief reason may have been the division of the Democrats into three parties.

Hundreds of books have been written on the Civil War, but do Americans really understand why the South lost the war?

History teaching is more than a mass of facts, names, and dates so why do teachers utilize objective assessments instead of concept based testing methodologies?

Do you need a topic for an American history essay? Here's some of the highlights of the last 250 years or so to get you started!

Dred Scott's residency in Illinois and Wisconsin should have made him a freedman but the US Supreme Court disagreed, declaring the 1820 Compromise unconstitutional.

The Supreme Court's decisions in Scott and Plessy cases established a legal framework for the social and economic subjugation of blacks in the 20th century.

Abraham Lincoln began his political career as a Whig. In 1854, a new party was formed, and Lincoln became its first successful candidate in 1860.

The national election of 1852 demonstrated the inability of the chief political parties in confronting the growing crisis dividing the country and leading to secession.

Rutherford B. Hayes achieved the Presidency in part because his early life offered very little in the way of scandal. He was a capable lawyer and a wartime hero.