Question 1 • Survey of U.S. History - SS3313 IC
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 organized Kansas and Nebraska as separate territories. It allowed settlers in each territory to decide whether to permit slavery through popular sovereignty, effectively overturning the Missouri Compromise’s restriction on slavery north of 36°30′. So choice B is correct; the act did not combine the territories or guarantee they would be free states.
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