![]() Section 28 Declares the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 to be in full force in the Territory. Section 19 Defines the boundaries of the Territory, gives it the name of Kansas, and states that "when admitted as a State or States, the said Territory, or any portion of the same, shall be received into the Union with or without slavery, as their constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission." It further provides for its future division into two or more Territories, and the attaching of any portion thereof to any other State or Territory and for the holding inviolable the rights of all Indian tribes until such time as they shall be extinguished (replaced) by treaty. ![]() The provisions relating to Kansas Territory formed the last eighteen sections. The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed the settlers of Kansas Territory to determine by popular sovereignty whether Kansas would be a free state or a slave state. The Act repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which marked a line of latitude to be the separation of free and slave states. The Kansas–Nebraska Act became a law on May 30, 1854, establishing the Nebraska Territory and Kansas Territory. Kansas Territory was established by the Kansas–Nebraska Act. ![]() ![]() JF00-072: Nebraska–Kansas state line at intersection of Nebraska counties Thayer and Jefferson and Kansas counties Washington and Republic. See the main article: Kansas–Nebraska Act Site No. ![]()
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