Celia and Eliza’s choice to pursue their freedom was a challenge not only to their ‘master,’ but also to the territorial system established by the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act under the theory ...

RICHARDSON COUNTY, Neb. (KOLN) - On May 8, about 13 surveyors trekked to the “Point of Beginning,” exactly 170 years from the date that crews resurrected the Cast Iron Monument in 1855.

In 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act would allow the citizens of those western territories to decide through popular vote whether they wanted to become a free state or a slave state.

Following the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854, the country’s two major parties, the Democrats and the Whigs, began to factionalize.

An event that deeply appalled and angered all the anti-slavery forces in 1854 was the passage by Congress of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, drafted by Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas. As the WSWS ...

By 1854, the Republican Party was founded, formed by a coalition of “conscience” Whigs and anti-slavery Democrats, ... The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the 1820 Missouri Compromise, ...

For those who don’t remember their Kansas state history, in 1854 Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, controversially repealing the 1820 Missouri Compromise.It meant that residents in Kansas ...

A historic battle is set to be honored for years to come as the Monnett Battle of Westport Fund unveils a series of 10 markers in Kansas City.

Historian Brown (The First Populist) recaps the passage of the “explosive” Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which he argues “profoundly affected the way that both northerners and southerners saw ...

Pierce had bled support among northern Democrats since the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which allowed the two new states to decide on the legality of slavery in their territories ...

For anti-slavery Americans like the ones meeting in Ripon, the Kansas-Nebraska Act was a profound betrayal. The Ripon Herald newspaper, in March 1854, denounced the bill as a "nefarious scheme." ...