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The kansas Nebraska act nullified the Missouri compromise by

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Answer:

The land that would become Kansas and Nebraska was

✔ north

of the Missouri Compromise line.

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The Missouri Compromise had the country split at the 36 parallel (East-West), with the Western territories South of this invisible line slave-territories, and with those North as free territories. However, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, created by Stephen Douglas in 1854, declared that the states of Kansas and Nebraska would decide their own affiliation- free or slave- by popular vote, called "popular sovereignty", even though these were North of the line.

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