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may 30, 1854 - Kansas-Nebraska Act

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Created the territories of Kansas & Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereignty weather they would allow slavery within each territory.

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may 30, 1854
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~ 172 years ago