EMERGENCE OF USA
FOUNDATION OF AMERICAN COLONIES
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Question
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Fighting broke out between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups in Kansas.
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Kansas entered the Union as a slave state through popular sovereignty in 1856.
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Nebraskan settlers who supported abolition moved to Kansas.
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The boundary established by the Missouri Compromise of 1820 was extended farther south.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty.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Detailed explanation-2: -Officially titled “An Act to Organize the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas, ” this act repealed the Missouri Compromise, which had outlawed slavery above the 36º30’ latitude in the Louisiana territories, and reopened the national struggle over slavery in the western territories.
Detailed explanation-3: -the return of slaves who had escaped from the South The Kansas-‐Nebraska Act was passed to allow for settlement in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. The act allowed for settlers to vote on whether or not the territory would have slavery.
Detailed explanation-4: -Northerners were most outraged because it admitted Nebraska to the union as a slave state.