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AP US History
Unit 5 – Civil War and Reconstruction, 1848–1877
Topic 5.6
Which is an effect of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Set up Kansas & Nebraska as states. Each would use popular sovereignty to decide slavery.
Added Kansas as a state but made Nebraska forever a territory
Reaffirmed the Missouri Compromise and made sure slavery would not spread.
Combine the two states into a large powerful state that would always be free
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