Question 1 • US History Essentials I Sem. 1
The Kansas-Nebraska Act let settlers in Kansas and Nebraska decide whether to allow slavery through popular sovereignty. This effectively overturned the Missouri Compromise’s ban on slavery in those territories, creating an opportunity for slavery to expand there. That is why Southerners in Congress supported the act; it did not permit slavery in every U.S. territory.
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