Which statement best describes the two competing constitutions in Kansas in 1855? The two constitutions took opposite positions on the question of slavery. Neither constitution was supported by the people of Kansas. The two constitutions were produced by the Free Soilers. Both constitutions allowed slavery in Kansas for property owners. Both constitutions considered Kansas to be a free territory.
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The two constitutions took opposite positions on the question of slavery. According to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the people in each territory would vote on whether they wanted to allow slavery or not.
The two constitutions took opposite positions on the question of slavery. Neither constitution was supported by the people of Kansas.
The relative calm over the sectional issue was broken in 1854 over the issue of slavery in the territory of Kansas. Pressure had been building among northerners to organize the territory west of Missouri and Iowa, which had been admitted to the Union as a free state in 1846. This pressure came primarily from northern farmers, who wanted the federal government to survey the land and put it up for sale. Promoters of a transcontinental railroad were also pushing for this westward expansion.
Southerners, however, had long opposed the Wilmot Proviso’s stipulation that slavery should not expand into the West. By the 1850s, many in the South were also growing resentful of the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which established the 36° 30' parallel as the geographical boundary of slavery on the north-south axis. Proslavery southerners now contended that popular sovereignty should apply to all territories, not just Utah and New Mexico. They argued for the right to bring their enslaved property wherever they chose.
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