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Which best explains why Southerners in Congress supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

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Answer:

A

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It allowed slavery where the Missouri Compromise had banned it.

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Answer:

The Popular Sovereignty clause in the Act meant the territories might allow slavery and enter the Union as slave states.

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