The Kansas-Nebraska Act, which was seen by Northerners as a pro-Southern act, was passed in 1854 and led to a rush of Northern settlers in the Kansas Territory.

On this day in 1854, the House approved, 113-100, the Kansas-Nebraska Act. It repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, dampening chances of a peaceful resolution to the issue of slavery.

But now, just as the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 broke through the slave state limitation to the South, the Democratic Party's 2010 health care law has broken socialism's boundary of being so limited.

We are now beginning to enter the Kansas-Nebraska Act stage of the socialist crisis of the Republic. At our constitutional founding, the evil of slavery had been crudely evaded. In 1820, the ...

Military history professor Harry Laver discusses the issue of the spread of slavery in new territories in the U.S. in 1854.