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A piece of legislation that called for popular sovereignty to decide the slavery issue was What were causes of sectionalism?
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A piece of legislation that called for popular sovereignty to decide the slavery issue was

What were causes of sectionalism?

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