nd regulation also known as paternalism for a race unable to compete in the modern world without proper training. Many Southern preachers proclaimed that slavery was sanctioned in the Bible. But after the American Revolution slavery died in the North, just as it was becoming a way of life in the South. By the time of 1804 seven of the northern most states had abolished slavery. During this time a surge of democratic reform swept the North and West. There were demands for political equality and economic and social advances. The Northerners goals were free public education, better salaries and working conditions for workers, rights for women, and better treatment for criminals. The South felt these views were not important. All of these views eventually led to an attack on the slavery system in the South, and showed opposition to its spread into whatever new territories that were acquired. Northerners said that slavery revoked the human right of being a free person. Now with all these views the North set out on its quest for the complete abolition of slavery.
             The Kansas-Nebraska act allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska make their own choices on whether or not to allow slavery within their territories. The Act served to annul the Missouri Compromise which barred slavery north of latitude 36° 30'. Pro-slavery settlers carried out the first election but were charged with fraud by anti-slavery settlers, and thus they renounced the results. (http://www.historyplace.com/licoln/kansas.htm) The anti-slavery settlers held another election, however pro-slavery settlers refused to vote. (http://www.historyplace.com/licoln/kansas.htm) This fashioned two opposing sections within the Kansas territory borders. Violence soon erupted, with the anti-slavery forces led by John Brown. (http://www.historyplace.com/licoln/kansas.htm) The territory earned the nickname "bleeding Kansas" as the death tol...