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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