* 1854 – The Kansas-Nebraska Act becomes law establishing the US territories of Nebraska and Kansas.

In 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which opened the new territories to slavery, was passed.

Houston opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854, and correctly predicted that it would cause a sectional rift in the country that would eventually lead to war, saying: " ... what fields of blood, what scenes of horror, what mighty cities in smoke and ruins – it is brother murdering brother ...

He ran again two years later, this time successfully, in 1854 as an Anti-Nebraska candidate in opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

When Kansas Territory was incorporated in 1854 due to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the Missouri Compromise of 1820 was essentially repealed.

It was named in honor of a U. S. Senator from South Carolina, Andrew Butler ( 1796 – 1857 ), who was one of the authors of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 and a strong advocate of Kansas becoming a slave state.

On May 30, 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act created the Nebraska Territory and the Kansas Territory, divided by the Parallel 40 ° North ( Baseline Road or County Line Road or Weld County Road 2 in the future Weld County ).

In 1854 the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed, creating the Kansas Territory and opening the region to settlement by Americans.

In 1854 the Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed legal settlement in the regional area.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act opened the territory to settlement by U. S. citizens in 1854.

The term in its legislative sense was first used in 1854 when opponents tried to delay the Kansas-Nebraska Act in the U. S. Congress.

His opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 led him to leave the Democratic Party to become a member of the new Republican Party.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 established Kansas Territory, which included the entire length of the Smoky Hill River.

He spoke ably against the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.

However, two years later, after enormous outrage over the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, the remains of the Free Soil Party helped form the Republican Party.

The preparations were nearly complete, with several thousand men prepared to go, when in May 1854 the administration reversed course and undertook steps to stop what it had almost put into motion, presumably because it felt that in the wake of the furor over the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act that action to add slaveholding territory such as Cuba would cause irreparable damage to the Democratic Party in the North.

With the passage of the extremely controversial Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854, Congress left the decision up to the voters on the ground in Kansas.

Meeting at a school house in Ripon on February 28, 1854, some thirty opponents of the Kansas-Nebraska Act called for the organization of a new political party and suggested that Republican would be the most appropriate name ( to link their cause with the Declaration of Independence ).

The sectional issue surged to the forefront again in 1854, when Senator Stephen A. Douglas, from Illinois, moved to organize the Nebraska Territory, all of which lay north of the Missouri Compromise line, in the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 created the Kansas and Nebraska territories and opened the lands to settlement by American pioneers.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act became law on May 30, 1854, establishing the Nebraska Territory and Kansas Territory.

* Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854

The first movement of permanent U. S. settlers in the area began with the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which allowed homestead land claims to be filed.

He was one of the foremost critics in Michigan of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 which repealed the Missouri Compromise and opened the territories to slavery.

Chandler put out a call, in the Great Lake State for all radicals who were hot about the duplicitous actions of the National Administration and Congress, to meet in Jackson, Michigan, on July 6, 1854 for the express purpose of defeating the Kansas-Nebraska and Fugitive Slave Acts.

He returned to politics to oppose the pro-slavery Kansas – Nebraska Act ( 1854 ); this law repealed the slavery-restricting Missouri Compromise ( 1820 ).

The Act became law in May 1854, establishing the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska.

The Kansas – Nebraska Act of 1854 () created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing settlers in those territories to determine through Popular Sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory.

Sen. Stephen A. Douglas and former Illinois Congressman Abraham Lincoln aired their disagreement over the Kansas – Nebraska Act in three public speeches during September and October 1854.

The impotence of legislation in this field was demonstrated when the Sale of Beer Act 1854 which restricted Sunday opening hours had to be repealed, following widespread rioting.

De Lesseps therefore tried to increase revenues by interpreting the kind of net ton referred to in the second concession ( tonneau de capacité ) as meaning a ship's real freight capacity and not only the theoretical net tonnage of the Moorsom System introduced in Britain by the Merchant Shipping Act in 1854.

This was due in part to the Kansas – Nebraska Act of 1854, which had divided the Democrats into Northern Democrats and Southern Democrats.

The complete freedom of a carrier of passengers at common law to make such contracts as he thinks fit was not curtailed by the Railway and Canal Traffic Act 1854, and a specific contract which enlarges, diminishes or excludes his duty to take care ( e. g., by a condition that the passenger travels " at his own risk against all casualties ") cannot be pronounced to be unreasonable if the law authorises it.

Parliament also passed several laws aimed at combatting corruption, including the Corrupt Practices Act 1854, though these measures proved largely ineffectual.

The rise in population of the surrounding districts helped lead to the Act of Consolidation of 1854 which extended the city of Philadelphia to include all of Philadelphia County.

Indian Country was reduced to the approximate boundaries of the current state of Oklahoma by the Kansas – Nebraska Act of 1854, which created Kansas Territory and Nebraska Territory.

* Brighton was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1854, later becoming a county borough under the Local Government Act 1888 ; it covered the parish of Brighton and part of Preston

The impotence of legislation in this field was demonstrated when the Sale of Beer Act 1854 which restricted Sunday opening hours had to be repealed, following widespread rioting.

These were all closed under the Extramural Interment Act in 1854 ; the parish was required to purchase land some distance away, and chose East Finchley for its new St Pancras Cemetery.

The undertaking became the Wandsworth and Putney Gaslight and Coke Company in 1854 and was incorporated by Act of Parliament in 1856.

The new Republican Party, born in the Midwest ( Ripon, Wisconsin, 1854 ) and created in opposition to the Act, aimed to stop the expansion of slavery and soon emerged as the dominant force throughout the North.

Self-government was established in 1853, following the New Zealand Constitution Act 1852, and the 1st Parliament met on 24 May 1854.