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After the unfair vote for slavery in Kansas, violent confrontations escalated between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions, leading to the term "Bleeding Kansas." This period of violence ultimately contributed to tensions building up to the American Civil War.
It called for the residents of Kansas and Nebraska vote to decide the issue of slavery.
...the slave/free status of the new state of Kansas was being put to a local vote.
To try to influence the local 'Popular Sovereignty' vote on whether Kansas would be a slave-state or free soil.Thats wrong the answer is They wanted to make sure Kansas became pro-slave. -$ane
There was a vote for slavery with the Kansas Nebraska Act. The states held an election to decide if they would come in free or slave.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide the issue of slavery by popular sovereignty. The people who lived in these territories would be able to vote on whether slavery would be allowed there. What effect did this have on Kansas?
They worried Kansas would become a haven for runaway slaves.
Hopeful that the people of Kansas and Nebraska might vote for slavery in those states.
It put the slavery question to a local vote in each new state.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
the vote over whether to allow slavery
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