Bell Ringer: Kansas-Nebraska Act Kansas-Nebraska Act Tim Rues talks about the effects of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. ** This clip is part of C-SPAN Classroom's FREE resources for teachers and students.

In 1854, pro-slavery politician Stephen Douglas’ Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the 1920 Missouri Compromise which disallowed slavery north of the 36 th parallel.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act was signed into law by President Franklin Pierce on May 30 amid increasing hostility in the halls of power in Washington, D.C., and amid increasing groundswell of opposition.

But now, just as the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 broke through the slave state limitation to the South, the Democratic Party's 2010 health care law has broken socialism's boundary of being so limited.

Two years later during the 1856 presidential election, the Democrats wanted nothing to do with the Kansas-Nebraska Act despite the fact that they passed it and a president from their party ...

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