Which was a reaction to the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?

The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 allowed settlers in those territories to decide whether to permit slavery, effectively overturning the Missouri Compromise’s restriction on slavery there. Many people who opposed the expansion of slavery joined together to form the Republican Party in response. The Democratic Party and Senator Stephen Douglas both existed before the act, and the Missouri Compromise was passed decades earlier.

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