Description: A map of the United States at the time of the Kansas–Nebraska Act (1854) which allowed settlers to determine whether or not slavery would be allowed in their territories. The map is color–coded to show the Free States (including California, admitted to the Union as a Free State in 1850), the Slave States, and the territories that were open to slavery by the Compromise of 1850. These territories were the Oregon Territory, Nebraska Territory, Minnesota Territory, Territory of Utah, Kansas Territory, Indian Territory, and the Territory of New Mexico.
Place Names: A Complete Map of the United States, Canada, Mexico, United State
ISO Topic Categories: boundaries,
inlandWaters,
location,
oceans
Keywords: Freedom States and Slavery States, physical, political, physical features, country borders,
major political subdivisions, boundaries,
inlandWaters,
location,
oceans, Unknown, 1854
Source: Charles Kendall Adams, A History of the United States (Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 1909) 321
Map Credit: Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman |
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