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What was the Kansas Nebraska Act SUPPOSED to do?

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Allowed for the people to debate on slavery
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act was an 1854 bill that mandated “popular sovereignty”–allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state's borders. Proposed by Stephen A.

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