Kansas-Nebraska+Act

Kansas-Nebraska Act The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, and allowed them to decide through "popular sovereignty" whether to be free or slave-holding. Should the issue of slavery in the territories have been decided by: • Popular sovereignty, because it allowed the people their inherent right to determine the future of their territory? (PRO) • The 1820 Missouri Compromise, which barred the expansion of slavery in the North? (CON)

PRO: Not letting people decide to make their territory a slave state or a non-slave state would be a violation of their rights as Americans

con: all new states should b free states

PRO: When Congress opened the new territories of Utah and New Mexico both to slave-holding and non slave-holding settlers to not do the same with Kansas and Nebraska would be inconsistent--- not to mention hypocritical

CON: there should not be any slaves in the first place i thank that is genorice that only the new states will be free