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The Territory of Nebraska was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from May 30, 1854, [1] until March 1, 1867, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the state of Nebraska. The Nebraska Territory was created by the Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854. The territorial capital was Omaha.
The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 (10 Stat. 277) was a territorial organic act that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska.It was drafted by Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas, passed by the 33rd United States Congress, and signed into law by President Franklin Pierce.
The United States annexes the Republic of Texas as the State of Texas on December 29, 1845. On December 29, 1845, U.S. President James K. Polk signed the Joint resolution for the admission of the State of Texas into the Union. [67] The United States assumed the territorial claims of the Republic of Texas upon the annexation.
The Kansas–Nebraska Act becomes law, creating the Kansas Territory and Nebraska Territory. A provision that settlers will vote on the legality of slavery in the new territories effectively rescinds the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and touches off an epidemic of violence and electoral fraud beginning the next year. Jun 24
Kansas Territory was established on May 30, 1854, by the Kansas–Nebraska Act.This act established both the Nebraska Territory and Kansas Territory. The most momentous provision of the Act in effect repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and allowed the settlers of Kansas Territory to determine by popular sovereignty whether Kansas would be a free state or a slave state.
Opponents of slavery and the Kansas–Nebraska Act meet in Ripon, Wisconsin in February, and subsequently meet in other Northern states, to form the Republican Party. [178] The party includes many former members of the Whig and Free Soil parties and some northern Democrats.
The 1854 Kansas–Nebraska Act, written to form the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, was designed by Stephen A. Douglas, then the chairman of the Senate Committee on Territories. The Act included language that allowed settlers to decide whether they would or would not accept slavery in their region. [ 1 ]
Texas annexation (1845) Mexican–American War (1846–48) Wilmot Proviso (1846) Nashville Convention (1850) Compromise of 1850; Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) Recapture of Anthony Burns (1854) Kansas–Nebraska Act (1854) Ostend Manifesto (1854) Bleeding Kansas (1854–61) Caning of Charles Sumner (1856) Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) The Impending ...