may 30, 1854 - The Kansas Nebraska Act
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2. This was an 1854 bill that mandated "popular sovereignty" allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state's borders.3. This bill gave the South the opportunity to spread slavery to land that was once restricted to them by the Missouri Compromise of 1820. The North saw this as a direct threat to the power of the free states since this gave the South a chance to get more slave states.
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may 30, 1854
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~ 171 years ago