This bill, if made into law, would repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which said that slavery ... as a free state was never in question. But Kansas was next to the slave state of Missouri.

The Missouri Compromise of 1820 kept an uneasy alliance for many ... Stephen Douglas had the idea that the new territories of Kansas and Nebraska would choose for themselves whether they would ...

Major Acts: The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether to allow slavery within their borders, nullified the Missouri ...

The renewable energy standards in Kansas were unfortunately weakened in a compromise unveiled Monday by Gov. Sam Brownback and wind power supporters. However, the state’s energy mandate is not ...

MISSION, Kan. — Kansas lawmakers are dead set on cutting income taxes, but so far, they haven’t agreed on the best way to do it. A new proposal strikes a compromise many might be able to get ...

allowed the new territory of Kansas to decide its stance on the legality of slavery (in defiance of the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which did not allow slave states north of latitude 36 degrees 30 ...