3 - Toward Civil War - Kansas-Nebraska Act

•Discuss answers from the guiding questions for Lincoln's Peoria speech.
•Discuss implications of this passage from the Kansas-Nebraska Act (Section 32)
"That the Constitution, and all laws of the United States which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the same force and effect within the said Territory of Kansas as elsewhere within the United States, except the eighth section of the act preparatory to the admission of Missouri into the Union, approved March sixth, eighteen hundred and twenty, which, being inconsistent with the principle of non-intervention by Congress with slavery in the States and Territories, as recognized by the legislation of eighteen hundred and fifty, commonly called the Compromise Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void; it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to revive or put in force any law or regulation which may have existed prior to the act of sixth of March, eighteen hundred and twenty, either protecting, establishing, prohibiting, or abolishing slavery."
•The logic goes like this: the Missouri Compromise of 1820 is repealed because in 1850, Congress chose not to enforce anything about slavery in Utah and New Mexico. By repealing the Missouri Compromise, it allows for territories above the 36°30′ line.