1 fev 1854 ano - Kansas-Nebraska Act

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[1854]

Context: US expanding west; railroads & territories need organizing

Cause: wanted to allow settlers to vote on slavery (popular soverignty)

Effect: repealed Missouri Compromise; led to Bleeding Kansas & Republican Party rise
- both kansas & nebraska became free when they officially became states
> kansas: 1861; nebraska: 1867

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