1. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 was introduced by Illinois Senator Stephen A. Douglas and was signed into law by President Franklin Pierce on May 30, 1854. This act effectively repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether they would enter the Union as free or slave states through popular sovereignty.
2. The passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act led to violent conflict in Kansas, known as "Bleeding Kansas," as pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers rushed to the territory in an attempt to sway the outcome. The violence and bloodshed in Kansas foreshadowed the even larger conflict that would erupt in the Civil War just a few years later. The act also contributed to the disintegration of the Democratic Party and the rise of the Republican Party.
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