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Many southerners supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act because it allowed the citizens of these two newly formed states to choose, by popular vote, whether or not to be a slave state. The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed in 1854.

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The Act allowed for the creation of new slave-states, if the local population voted for it.

A new territory, Kansas, would likely become a slave state.
A new territory, Kansas, would likely become a slave state

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They thought that granting popular sovereignty would allow slavery.

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they thought that granting popular sovereignty would allow slavery

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Since there was no way to influence voters in territories that would become states, the Kansas-Nebraska Act was a neutral one. How citizens would vote could not be accurately predicted.

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they traded vaudlville to the south

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