Question 5 • (MACS) 2021 NY-US History CR Summer Quarter 1
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 let settlers in those territories decide whether to allow slavery, effectively undoing the Missouri Compromise’s restriction on slavery there. Opposition to the act and the spread of slavery helped bring together people who formed the Republican Party. The Republican Party was therefore formed as an effect of the act.
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