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kansas nebraska act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Whig Party
The Whig Party
The Whig Party
It made slavery a central issue. It split the party into two factions.
The passage of the Kansas - Nebraska Act effectively made the last Missouri Compromise a mute one. It is said to have broken up the Whig Party into the new Republican Party and the Know Nothing party.
Most historians cite the passage of the Kansas - Nebraska Act to have caused the collapse of the US political party known as the Whigs. The Whigs split off into the Republican Party and the Know - Nothing Party.
They opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act because they were against the expansion of slavery into new states.
The Republican Party
Decreased the strength of the Republican Party
The Whig Party (whose final collapse was the result of the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854 - since Southern Whigs joined the Democrats in supporting it, but Northern Whigs opposed it)