Democrat Franklin Pierce wins the presidency in 1852 vowing to maintain national harmony. But as Western territories once considered unfit for cultivation begin to open up, questions of slave versus free again take center stage. Even the route of the proposed transcontinental railroad and its east-west orientation become an issue. Because he wants the eastern terminus of the railroad to be located in Chicago, Stephen A. Douglas initiates a series of political maneuvers to gain enough votes to pass the Kansas-Nebraska Act. As a result the Missouri Compromise line is abolished and the slave-free question is left to popular sovereignty in new territories.

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