Kansas & Nebraska Act Resolved: The Kansas-Nebraska Act Was Fair
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The Kansas-Nebraska act was a proposal by Sen. Stephen A. Douglas which
said that Kansas and Nebraska territory could be allowed to govern for
itself whether or not to be a slave state or a free state. By a vote of its
residents the territories would become a slave or a free state.This caused
man ....
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.... parallel was unfair because that was the only land up for
slavery. What if someone wanted to move above the 36-30 degree parallel?
Would they have to leave their slaves behind and hire workers?
Also the federal government just marked off land that slaves could be in.
Slaves are considered property and you can take property anywhere. That is
unfair because then they would have to leaves all their slaves behind.
Lastly people needed slaves to tend their farm. If the government just
marked off ....
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