S2E16 - Tune in as Trent and Marissa break down the infamous Kansas-Nebraska Act and its bloody consequences.  Signed into law by hot loser Franklin Pierce in 1854, it allowed the people themselves to decide whether or not to allow slavery in the territories. What could possibly go wrong? Well, just voter fraud, the beating of a congressman, broadswords, fleeing governors, killing sprees, the death of a political party, the birth of a political party… and the inevitability of civil war. 

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Produced and Edited by Trent Thomson and Marissa Macy

Original music by Noise of Approval

Graphic design by Darcey Mckinney

Sources

Franklin Pierce by Michael F. Holt

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-law-that-ripped-america-in-two-99723670/

https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/kansas-nebraska-act

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/caning-charles-sumner

https://www.history.com/topics/19th-century/bleeding-kansas