A pictorial school history of the United States; to which are added the Declaration of independence, and the Constitution of the United States . outbreak begin ? 13 290 PIERCE S ADMINISTRATION. ;. had its origin mainlyAvitli Congress, in theintroduction there ofNvhat is known as tlieKansas - NebraskaBill. III. By tlie Mis-souri CompromiseBill, passed in 1820,it Avas provided that,in consideration of theadmission of Missourias a Slave State, slaveryshould forever be pro-hibited in all the re-maining territories ofthe United Statesnorth of latitude thirty-six degrees and thirtyminntes, th


A pictorial school history of the United States; to which are added the Declaration of independence, and the Constitution of the United States . outbreak begin ? 13 290 PIERCE S ADMINISTRATION. ;. had its origin mainlyAvitli Congress, in theintroduction there ofNvhat is known as tlieKansas - NebraskaBill. III. By tlie Mis-souri CompromiseBill, passed in 1820,it Avas provided that,in consideration of theadmission of Missourias a Slave State, slaveryshould forever be pro-hibited in all the re-maining territories ofthe United Statesnorth of latitude thirty-six degrees and thirtyminntes, the southernboundary of thatState. By the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, which Congresspassed in 1854, this prohibition was repealed, and the twoterritories of Kansas and Nebraska were duly organized. lY. No sooner had the bill passed than emigrants fromboth sections of the Union began to pour into Kansas, thosefrom the North being determined to make it a free State,while those from the South were equally resolved the otherway. And with such undue zeal was the strife carried on,that frequent collisions took place, in which blood was some-times III. Questions.—7. Whon w:is the Missouri Compromise Bill passed? was its important provision ? 9. When was the Kansas-Nebraska Billpassed? 10. What was its important provision? IV. 11. What began to be done as soon as the Kansas-Nebraska Bill waspassed? 12. What were the people of the North determined upon? 13. What thoseof the South ? BUCHANAN S ADMINISTRATION. 291


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