Question 9 • American/Arizona History
The Kansas-Nebraska Act let settlers in those territories decide whether to allow slavery, a policy called popular sovereignty. Many Southerners supported it because it opened the possibility that Kansas and Nebraska could permit slavery and eventually enter the Union as slave states. The act did not extend the Missouri Compromise; it effectively repealed its restriction on slavery north of the 36°30′ line.
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