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The idea of local elections encouraged terrorists from both sides to cross into the state and intimidate the voters, and then try to make out that the results were rigged.

It was like the Civil War in microcosm, and it raised the temperature of the slavery debate.

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The Fugitive Slave Act greatly offended the Northern public, who resented being treated as unpaid slave-catchers, and it so infuriated Harriet Beecher Stowe that she wrote 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' as her protest against it. This widened the gulf between North and South.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed the people of each new state to vote whether it should be slave or free. The first time this was put to the test, in thinly-populated Kansas, it was like an invitation for every bully-boy in America to cross into the state, to intimidate voters and try to get the results declared invalid. This resulted in terrible bloodshed ('Bleeding Kansas'), and it seemed to show that the slavery debate would never be settled, except by combat.

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To take them in order, the Fugitive Slave Act angered many people in the North because of the prospect of official slave-catchers hunting down runaways and returning them to their owners. ('Uncle Tom's Cabin' was born out of this protest.)

The Kansas-Nebraska Act looked like a sensible plan to allow the people of each state to vote whether to be slave or free. But it just encouraged terrorists from both sides to intmidate voters and try to cause confusion by declaring all results to be rigged. This violence was like the upcoming Civil War in microcosm.

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The Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854 angered the anti slavery abolitionists. They did not want slavery to expand and the Act allowed citizens to vote whether they wanted their future State to be free or a slave State.

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Popular soverignty was a mistake and the Nation suffered because of it.

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