6- What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act? 7- What happened to the Missouri Compromise as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska
Act?
8- Define popular sovereignty.
9- Why was Kansas referred to as “Bleeding Kansas"?
10-What was "Bleeding Kansas" a warning of?
11-Why did the issue of slavery divide the nation?

U. Shistory

In 1854, an uproar regarding the question of slavery in the territories challenged the relative calm after the Compromise of 1850. Northern farmers wanted the federal government to survey the land west of Iowa and Missouri and put it up for sale. Many in the South were growing resentful of the Missouri Compromises, which established the 36° 30' parallel as the geographical boundary of slavery. Democratic leaders sought to bind these disparate ideologies together. The Kansas-Nebraska bill created two territories: Kansas, directly west of Missouri; and Nebraska, West of Iowa. The act applied the principle of popular sovereignty, which would allow slavery to be allowed in both territories

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