The Kansas-Nebraska Act created the territories (not yet
states) of Kansas and Nebraska. It opened new lands suitable for settlement and
it repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing the settlers to decide
whether or not that territory/state would be free or slaveholding. The
Kansas-Nebraska Act was enacted in 1854 and designed by Democratic Senator
Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois.
Kansas was admitted as a free state in 1961 and Nebraska
entered as a free state as well six years later in 1867.
Visual/map of The Kansas-Nebraska Act
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