Answer:
Exodusters (The name comes from the exodus from Egypt during Biblical times.)
Explanation:
The Homestead Act and other liberal land laws offered blacks the opportunity to escape the racism and oppression of the post war South and become owners of their own tracts of private farmland. Because of the compromise of 1850, settlers wanted Nebraska and Kansas open for settlement. Stephen Douglas suggest repealing the Missouri Compromise...People were still fleeing and in 1854 The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed.
