MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
PRESIDENT FRANKLIN PIERCES POLITICS AND ECONOMICS
Question
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What repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Webster-Ashburton Treaty
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Treaty of Ghent
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Indian Removal Act
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty. It also produced a violent uprising known as “Bleeding Kansas, ” as proslavery and antislavery activists flooded into the territories to sway the vote.
Detailed explanation-2: -This provision held for 34 years, until it was repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. In 1857, the Supreme Court ruled that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional in its Dred Scott v. Sandford decision.
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