TERM: Kansas-Nebraska Act (scroll down for definition)

 

 

 

Definition for: Kansas-Nebraska Act

Major Slave Legislation #3 of 3.

1. Reverses the Missouri Compromise

2. Constructed by the "Little Giant," Stephen Douglas (Clay had passed on by then)

3. Let Kansas and Nebraska decide if they would be a slave state or not -- that notion is called popular sovereignty.

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