Kansas–Nebraska Act

May 30, 1854 · Washington, D.C.

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US law that created the Kansas and Nebraska territories and let their settlers decide on slavery, repealing the Missouri Compromise and leading to violence in Kansas.

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Franklin Pierce President of the United States Stephen A. Douglas Senator, author of the act

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United States