·Douglas hoped that northerners opposing his bill would quiet down after the bill was settled, but they became more furious·Antislavery critics wanted to prevent slavery from gaining a foothold in Kansasa Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company was found to help emigrants to settle down in Kansas a hun...

President Abraham Lincoln said in 1858, "I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races." President Lincoln is widely believed to be the fabled liberator of the slaves. However, Lincoln showed time a...

ReconstructionReconstruction is the rebuilding process that followed the American Civil War. The war lasted from 1861-1865 and at thet end of the war many questions concerning the South and slavery were left unanswered. These problems were what to do about the relationship between the Union and the ...