California is admitted as a free state into this country!
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act will repeal the Missouri Compromise
Kansas must be a free state!!!
Start of Bleeding Kansas
Make Kansas a slave state!!!
The Missouri Compromise admitted California as a free state which many were not in favor of.
Beecher's Bibles
The Kansas-Nebraska Act included a provision repealing the Missouri Compromise and organized Kansas and Nebraska territories based on popular sovereignty.
Caning of Charles Sumner
As a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, many pro slavery and antislavery settlers rushed into Kansas territory to try to create majorities for their own sides.
Kansas finally admitted
Kansas will enter as a free state
Henry Ward Beecher supplied the Northern abolitionists with rifles. This became known as "Beecher's Bibles."
Preston Brooks beat Charles Sumner with a cane after he had a speech in which he insulted Senator Andrew Butler (relative of Brooks).
Kansas was finally admitted into the Union as a free state after the secession of the Deep South created a free-state majority.