Historedia
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Signing of the Kansas–Nebraska Act

When
May 30, 1854
Where
Washington, D.C. (legacy-row correction; not directly attested in supplied passages)
Part of
Kansas–Nebraska Act becomes law

President Franklin Pierce signed the Kansas–Nebraska Act into law on May 30, 1854, creating the territories of Kansas and Nebraska.

President Franklin Pierce signed the Kansas–Nebraska Act into law on May 30, 1854, a date attested in the supplied sources. The act created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, and Douglas had introduced the bill to open western lands for expansion. Pierce had shown little enthusiasm for repealing the Missouri Compromise. The signing location is recorded in the legacy row as Washington, D.C., correcting the anachronistic 'Kansas City, KS'; this location is a legacy-row correction not directly attested in the supplied passages.

Sources

  1. Kansas–Nebraska Act Wikipedia, revision of 2026-10-03
  2. Stephen A. Douglas Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-28

Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.