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How did the passage of the kansas-nebraska act push the country closer toward the civil war?.

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he Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 was a huge catalyst in sending the nation to the Civil War. This act reversed the Missouri Compromise and allowed slavery in the remainder of the original areas of the Louisiana Purchase.

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