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may 30, 1854 - Kansas-nebraska act

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Proposed that the issue of slavery be
decided by popular sovereignty in the Kansas and Nebraska territories, thus revoking the 1820 Missouri Compromise. Introduced by
Stephen Douglass in an effort to bring Nebraska into the Union and pave the way for a northern transcontinental railroad

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may 30, 1854
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~ 172 years ago