Repealing an 1820 law banning slavery in territories north of Missouri's southern border, the Kansas-Nebraska Act left ... Had the law made civil war unavoidable? “I’d put it this way ...

Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War ... and the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act and how each shifted the parameters of the debate, but Merry’s account ...

According to the museum, the May presentation titled “The Civil War in Kansas” is planned for this Thursday, May 1st. Will ...

With the nation perched on the brink of disaster, President Franlin Pierce did little else but accelerate America's descent ...

In the thirty years leading up to the Civil War, tensions in the country ... Law for the recapture of runaways. 1854: The Kansas-Nebraska act divides the Nebraska Territory in two, and soon ...