. Hazen's elementary history of the United States; a story and a lesson. 204 HAZENS ELEMENTARY HISTORY. LESSON. —Some States passed Personal Liberty Bills. Congress openedKansas and Nebraska to all settlers, and allow^ed each new State to decidethe question of slavery for itself. North and South contended for Kansas. was openly defied, and some States passed Personal LibertyLaws to prevent negroes from being carried back until theusual legal steps were 4. THE KANSAS-NEBRASKA BILL. Everybody hoped that the extension of slavery had beensettled T)v the Compromises of 1820 and 1850. But in
. Hazen's elementary history of the United States; a story and a lesson. 204 HAZENS ELEMENTARY HISTORY. LESSON. —Some States passed Personal Liberty Bills. Congress openedKansas and Nebraska to all settlers, and allow^ed each new State to decidethe question of slavery for itself. North and South contended for Kansas. was openly defied, and some States passed Personal LibertyLaws to prevent negroes from being carried back until theusual legal steps were 4. THE KANSAS-NEBRASKA BILL. Everybody hoped that the extension of slavery had beensettled T)v the Compromises of 1820 and 1850. But in 1854,during Pierces administration, Stephen , a democratic senator from Illi-nois, renewed the discussion of shivery byintroducing in Congress a bill opening theterritory of Kansas and Ne])raska to set-tlers with or without slaves ; declaring thatthe people in each territory should settlesuch questions for themselves, and thateach State should decide, when applying foradmission into the LTnion, whether it would allow slavery or l)i]l ^vas passed, and Kansas became the battle-groundon which North and South fought the first contests to decideAvhether slavery or freedom should triumpli. The anti-slaverv people in the North began at once to sendlarge bodies of emigrants to Kansas, and provided them witharms, as well as with implements of agriculture, that theymight overcome their enemies and conquer the soil. The free State men rapidly in
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