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30
Mei
1854

Kansas-Nebraska Act reopens the question of slavery’s expansion

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The act organized Kansas and Nebraska territories and allowed settlers to decide whether slavery would be permitted, repealing the Missouri Compromise restriction. It intensified armed conflict and national political crisis over the expansion of slaveholding power. Indigenous lands were also opened to settler government through the act, linking slavery’s expansion to territorial dispossession.

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Stephen Douglas

US Congress

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