MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
THE MEXICAN AMERICAN WAR
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Question
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What caused Senator Douglas to introduce the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
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the caning of Charles Sumner by Preston Brooks
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the need for a vote in Kansas over whether slavery would be allowed there
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the construction of the transcontinental railroad
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the desire of Northerners that the Missouri Compromise be repealed
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Stephen Douglas, one of the railway’s chief promoters, wanted a northern route via Chicago, but that would take the rail lines through the unorganized Nebraska territory, which lay north of the 1820 Missouri Compromise line where slavery was prohibited.
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