Let's see how smart you are!

[ShinRa]

Help me with my homework lol. I need a nice detailed answer to this question: Why was the Kansas-Nebraska Act very important? Why did it lead to such controversey and violence?

 

[nw909]

Surefire answer:

"I just moved here from Canada and do not know much about American history."

 

[Guest]

Originally posted by nw909
Surefire answer:

"I just moved here from Canada and do not know much about American history."

We (Canadians) know a helluva lot more about American history than Americans would Canadian history Id venture.

 

[thenerdguy]

Why dont you read up on it?

Heres a link that will tell you about it,

 

[ShinRa]

mmm ok those didn't help at all. Lol but thanks anyway.

edit - not talking to u nerd guy about my above statement, thanks for the read.

 

[Animal]

Just use a search engine instead of getting other people to do your work for you...

 

[Munro]

/me passes guinny's teacher a link to these forums

 

[ShinRa]

I hate history. I know what the K-N Act is, I just don't know how to answer the question properly. It's a retarded question none-the-less.

 

[Aethaecyn]

I suppose it was important because up till' then their was a balance between slave and non-slave states and thus they didn't want to assign them to one side or it would upset that, so they gave them both the ability to choose for themselves. This caused a lot of trouble in that each 'side' so to speak sent in a bunch of people to try to influence the votes, they got to argueing or whatever down that one river (I'm just talking generally I don't know exact facts) where they each had a sort of base of operations set up where they ended up conducting raids on the others and that what brown abolition dude killed a bunch of pro-slavery people with broadswords.. anyway a lot of fighting earned kansas the title of "bleeding kansas".. basically was one of things that led up to civil war.. the arguements over slave vs. non-slave

edit- some nice southern facts for ya tho is that it really wasn't that much about slavery, just the north won so their the ones who print the books, only about 2% of the population owned slaves down south, and the majority of those were women and europeans.. weren't even capable of voting, was just a bunch of propoganda in the north against slavery, like the book Uncle Tom's Cabin was written after the author spent only ONE week in the south and made up a bunch of it.. not all slaves were abused

 

[ShinRa]

Originally posted by Aethaecyn
I suppose it was important because up till' then their was a balance between slave and non-slave states and thus they didn't want to assign them to one side or it would upset that, so they gave them both the ability to choose for themselves. This caused a lot of trouble in that each 'side' so to speak sent in a bunch of people to try to influence the votes, they got to argueing or whatever down that one river (I'm just talking generally I don't know exact facts) where they each had a sort of base of operations set up where they ended up conducting raids on the others and that what brown abolition dude killed a bunch of pro-slavery people with broadswords.. anyway a lot of fighting earned kansas the title of "bleeding kansas".. basically was one of things that led up to civil war.. the arguements over slave vs. non-slave

edit- some nice southern facts for ya tho is that it really wasn't that much about slavery, just the north won so their the ones who print the books, only about 2% of the population owned slaves down south, and the majority of those were women and europeans.. weren't even capable of voting, was just a bunch of propoganda in the north against slavery, like the book Uncle Tom's Cabin was written after the author spent only ONE week in the south and made up a bunch of it.. not all slaves were abused

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[DimitriPopov]

Originally posted by Bass
We (Canadians) know a helluva lot more about American history than Americans would Canadian history Id venture.

You are indeed better than Americans. Ass