US History › Section G · Reform and a decade of crisis › Topic G.6
The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Republican Party
In 1854 a bill to organise the western plains tore up the Missouri Compromise line. Within two years Kansas was at war with itself, a senator had been beaten nearly senseless in the Capitol, and a new northern party had changed American politics.
In this topic
- A short calm
- Douglas's bill
- The northern backlash
- The Know-Nothings
- The Republican Party
- Worked example: how one law broke a party system
- Bleeding Kansas
- Violence in the Senate
- Worked example: reading an 1856 campaign slogan
- The election of 1856
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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