The day after this bill was introduced, Representative Joshua Giddings and Senator Salmon P. Chase published a response titled "Appeal of the Independ
The day after this bill was introduced, Representative Joshua Giddings and Senator Salmon P. Chase published a response titled "Appeal of the Independent Democrats." After this act became law, Senator David Atchison led an armed mob that seized polling places at gunpoint, and this law's passage led John Brown to massacre settlers at Pottawottamie Creek. This act was designed by Stephen A. Douglas to repeal the Missouri Compromise. FTP, identify this controversial bill that would allow its two namesake newly opened U.S. territories to self-determine whether slavery would be allowed.
The day after this bill was introduced, Representative Joshua Giddings and Senator Salmon P. Chase published a response titled "Appeal of the Independent Democrats."
Kansas-Nebraska Act