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What was the primary motivation behind the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?
To abolish slavery across all U.S. territories.
To allow popular sovereignty to decide the issue of slavery in Kansas and Nebraska.
To strengthen the Fugitive Slave Act.
To expand the Missouri Compromise to new territories.
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To allow popular sovereignty to decide the issue of slavery in Kansas and Nebraska.
(Designed by Stephen A. Douglas to organize those territories and let settlers vote on slavery — effectively repealing the Missouri Compromise restriction.)
(Designed by Stephen A. Douglas to organize those territories and let settlers vote on slavery — effectively repealing the Missouri Compromise restriction.)
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