How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act contribute to tension between the North and the South?

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Sim W.
May 23, 2017

Popular sovereignty was to determine whether or not slavery should be legal in Kansas.

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act was to introduce the idea that popular sovereignty is the means by which slavery should be legal in Kansas. Kansas was between the North and the South. Tension was strong between both on the issue of slavery, they both longed to see Kansas as a state either free or in which slavery was legal according to their interests.

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