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Kansas-Nebraska Bill

THE, an act passed by Congress in 1854, during the administration of President Franklin Pierce, for the purpose of organizing the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska. It provided, among other things, that the question of slavery should be left to the people; that questions involving the title to slaves were to be left to local courts, with the right to appeal to the United States Supreme Court; and that the fugitive slave laws were to apply to the Territories. Further, so far as this region was concerned, the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which SKA BIL Important ha se of live 000,000 an the sale of gener Kansas C The prod- 0,000. nth in the In t Reserve B ncludes the Wyoming, New Mexico, oneone-fourth of Mi 919 15 National rings in that 036,406,000. The n in 1920 was $28 et for that yea nent settlement o 1820, by a compa The town wa was incorpora ame of Town of was changed to Pop. (1900) 16 (1920) 324,410. of the Smok er, 10 miles from the t velt on its s a fertile wooded hills the Missouri riv he E. border of K ts are the Repu vers. From the Fork, to the mo out 900 miles.

VERSITY OF, sectarian institut unded in 186- 1919: Prof students, 3,31 125,000; pres BASKA BILL, ongress in 1854 istration of Pre for the purpose tories of Kansa provided, among question of g the people; that to slaves w with the rig d States Su the fugitive slave the Territories. region was conc of 1820, KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIV. excluded slavery from the Louisiana purchase N. of lat. 36° 30′ N., except from the State of Missouri, was declared repealed. This measure disrupted the Whig party, most of the S. Whigs joining the Democrats, and led to the organization of the Republican party in 1856. It was also instrumental in bringing about the Civil War. KANSAS KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVER- SITY, a co-educational institution in Salina, Kan.; founded in 1885 under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church; reported at the close of 1919:

Professors and instructors, 17; students, 325; president, L. B. Bowers, Ph. D.