This Day In History: May 30th Former Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois proposed a bill to organize the Territory of Nebraska in 1854 and the bill became known as the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Officially titled “An Act to Organize the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas,” the legislation was created to repeal the Missouri Compromise and added to the controversial debate over slavery in the United States. President Franklin Pierce signed the bill into…
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