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The Kansas-Nebraska Act

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act was an 1854 bill that ordered "famous sovereignty"– enabling pioneers of a domain to choose whether subjugation would be permitted inside another state's fringes. Proposed by Stephen A. Douglas– Abraham Lincoln's rival in the powerful Lincoln-Douglas debates– the bill toppled the Missouri Compromise's utilization of scope as the limit amongst slave and free an area. The contentions that emerged between master bondage and abolitionist subjection pioneers in the fallout of the demonstration's section prompted the time of brutality known as Bleeding Kansas and helped made ready for the American Civil War (1861-65). This 1854 bill to sort out western domains turned out to be a piece of the political

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