How would both the North and the South have expected to benefit from the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
1 Answer
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Explanation:
The North and the South want to have an advantage over the other. When new states were being admitted, the North and South lobbied for them to become a free state or a slave state. If there were more slaves states, then a civil war might end up in Confederate win and vice versa. When the Missouri Comprise was signed and Missouri become a slave state, Maine was quickly admitted as a free state so it would balance them out. So when Kansas and Nebraska were put up for statehood, there was a decision to let the people in the state vote to see whether or not each of them would be free or become a slave state. Nebraska was seen as automatically voting for a free state, so all the the focus was on Kansas. People from both the North and the South, who didn't live in Kansas, poured into Kansas to vote on the referendum. Overall more Southerns voted and Kansas became a slave state. There were fighting while the voting was happening and this is often called "Bleeding Kansas."
