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Explaining The Kansas-Nebraska Act Of 1854

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Also, I will be explaining what the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 was. January of 1854 Sen. Stephen Douglas wrote a bill that would divide the land in the west of Missouri into two states Nebraska and Kansas. Douglas wanted popular sovereignty for both states; this would allow the residents of the two states to vote on if slavery would be legal in new states. Groups against slavery were against Douglas’s push for popular sovereignty, because without the ability to vote slavery would not be allowed in the new

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