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Identify why the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed.

A. Identify what the term popular-sovereignty was.

B. How will the passing of the Kansas-Nebrask Act lead to Bleeding Kansas the first blood shed of the pre-civil war era?

User Suresh A
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1. So that the US could buy the land for Louisiana

2. It means that the state must do what the people want the state to do and not the opposite

3. (Not very sure about this one) People were divided I'm whether or not it should be passed and if it was legal/followed the constitution, dividing the Americans for the first time.

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I am not sure if 3 is right at all

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