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On May 30th, 1854 with the stroke of a pen, political and moral passions exploded upon the Kansas frontier. With President Franklin Pierce’s signature on the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the inhabitants of the newly formed territories were obliged to vote themselves into the Union as either slave or free. ... The Kansas-Nebraska Act nullified the Missouri Compromise. ... The presumption that all men were created equal and the constitutionally protected right to own another person was to meet a violent reconciliation in Kansas. ...
Southern politics overran the territory with a determined interest to carry the “peculiar institution"‚ into Kansas & beyond.
Approximate Word count = 421 Approximate Pages = 1.7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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