Name: TED-ED】一本の法案がいかにして国を分断したか - Ben Labaree, Jr. (【TED-Ed】How one piece of legislation divided a nation - Ben Labaree, Jr.)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T04:59:25.000Z
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Today when people complain about the state

or the sharp split between red and blue states.

But while it may seem like both of these things

the situation looked quite different in 1850,

with the Republican Party not yet existing,

and support for the dominant Democrats and Whigs

was at the center of increasing regional tensions

that would lead to the birth of the Republican Party,

the rise of Abraham Lincoln as its leader,

and a civil war that would claim over half a million lives.

it would be the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.

The story starts with the Missouri Compromise of 1820.

state of Missouri, while making it off limits

in the remaining federally administered Louisiana Territory.

a tenacious Democratic Senator from Illionis

he promoted constructing a transcontinental

which required the support of Southern politicians.

He was also a believer in popular sovereignty,

arguing that the status of slavery in a territory

should be decided by its residents rather than Congress.

designed to kill two birds with one stone.

It would divide the large chunk of incorporated land

into two new organized territories: Nebraska and Kansas,

While Douglas and his Southern supporters

repealing the 34-year-old Missouri Compromise

and feared that its supporters' ultimate goal

was to extend slavery to the entire nation.

Congress was able to pass the Kansas-Nebraska Act,

but at the huge cost of bitterly dividing the nation,

with 91% of the opposition coming from Northerners.

politicians traded insults and brandished weapons

President Pierce signed the bill into law

"The unanimous sentiment of the North is indignant resistance."

Douglas even admitted that he could travel

by the light of his own burning effigies.

of the Kansas-Nebraska Act were stunning.

Previously, both Whigs and Democrats had included

Northern and Southern lawmakers united around

a dividing factor that could not be ignored.

including an Illinois Whig named Abraham Lincoln,

denouncing "the monstrous injustice of slavery"

By this time the Whigs had all but ceased to exist,

In the same year, the new Republican Party

Although Lincoln still ran for Senate as a Whig in 1854,

he was an early supporter of the new party,

and helped to recruit others to its cause.

Meanwhile the Democratic Party was shaken

when events in the newly formed Kansas Territory

revealed the violent consequences of popular sovereignty.