Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Retrospective Theses and Dissertations Dissertations 1-1-1964 Free men, free labor : Iowa and the Kansas- Nebraska Act Richard Lee Doak Iowa State University Follow this and additional works at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd Recommended Citation Doak, Richard Lee, "Free men, free labor : Iowa and the Kansas-Nebraska Act" (1964). Retrospective Theses and Dissertations. 18119. https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd/18119 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Dissertations at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Retrospective Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. FREE MEN, FREE LABOR: IOWA AND THE KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT by Richard Lee Doak A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty in Partial Fulfillment of The Requirements for the Degree of ~~STER OF SCIENCE Major Subject: History Signatures have been redacted for privacy Iowa State University Of Science and Technology Ames, Iowa 1964 ii TABLE OF CONTENTS Page THE ICJNA BACKGROUND 1 THE SLAVERY BACKGROUND 18 THE ACT IS PASSED 34 THE AFTERMATH 75 CONSOLIDATION 126 BIBLI03RAPHY 150 1 THE IOWA BACKGROUND Introduction "The great fraud projected against the people of the United States by Stephen A. Douglas has at last been perpe trated," cried the editor of the Fairfield, Iowa, Ledger in June of 1854. "On the night of the 22nd of May 1854, at 11 o'clock, the final vote was taken in the House of Representa tives on the bill for the organization of Nebraska and Kansas, and resulted, 113 for, and 100 against, the bill.