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6. What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act and what did it try to accomplish?

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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.

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