Each June, in the small town of Osawatomie, Kansas, local residents hold a pageant to select a high school girl to be the new "John Brown ... (The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 dictated that the ...

John Brown is born in Torrington ... It is the culmination of years of poor business decisions made by Brown. 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854: The Missouri Compromise, which restricted the ...