HOW ONE PIECE OF
LEGISLATION DIVIDED A NATION -
BEN LABAREE, JR.
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You may think that things
are heated in Washington today, but the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 had members
of Congress so angry they pulled out their weapons -- and formed the Republican
Party. The issues? Slavery and states' rights, which led the divided nation
straight into the Civil War. Ben Labaree, Jr. explains how Abraham Lincoln's
party emerged amidst the madness.
Lesson by BEN LABAREE, JR.,
ANIMATION BY QA'ED MAI.
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