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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 .
Andrew Pickens Butler (November 18, 1796 – May 25, 1857) was an American lawyer, slaveholder, and United States senator from South Carolina who authored the Kansas-Nebraska Act with Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois. [1] In 1856, abolitionist senator Charles Sumner gave a speech in which he insulted Butler's character.
The Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway (CK&N) was formed in 1885 and Marcus Low, a former attorney for the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, was its president. [1] The CRI&P advanced the CK&N about twenty-five million dollars to begin construction in exchange for nearly all of the CK&N's stock.
In 1856, during the "Bleeding Kansas" crisis, Sumner denounced the Kansas–Nebraska Act in his "Crime against Kansas" speech, delivered on May 19 and May 20. The long speech argued for the immediate admission of Kansas as a free state and went on to denounce the "Slave Power"—the slave owners and their political power:
Trade sign used at the Boston headquarters of the New England Emigrant Aid Company [1] Document related to the N.E. Emigrant Aid Company, 1857. The New England Emigrant Aid Company [n 1] (originally the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company [4]) was a transportation company founded in Boston, Massachusetts [5] by activist Eli Thayer in the wake of the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which allowed the ...
"Omaha City" was organized by the owners of the Council Bluffs & Nebraska Ferry Company to lure the proposed transcontinental railroad to Council Bluffs. Alfred D. Jones, Omaha City's first postmaster, platted the town site early in 1854, months after the Kansas–Nebraska Act created the Nebraska Territory. [6]
You might be surprised by how many popular movie quotes you're remembering just a bit wrong. 'The Wizard of Oz' Though most people say 'Looks like we're not in Kansas anymore,' or 'Toto, I don't think
The Nebraska Kansas Colorado Railway (reporting mark NKCR), formerly the Nebraska, Kansas and Colorado RailNet, is based in Grant, Nebraska, and operates about 509 miles (819 km) of track in southwestern Nebraska, northern Kansas and northeastern Colorado.