Why did passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act anger many Free-Soilers?

The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed settlers in Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether to permit slavery through popular sovereignty. To do this, it repealed the Missouri Compromise’s restriction that had barred slavery in those territories. Free-Soilers opposed the expansion of slavery, so removing the ban angered them; the act did not automatically establish slavery there.

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