Conflicts between pro-slavery and anti-slavery force escalate.
Passed in May of 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act did away with the Missouri Compromise. It instead proposed that the new territory be divided into two separate territories, one being a slave state and the other being a free state. Northern Democrats and Whigs were angered by Douglas's bill, believing that the Missouri Compromise was a promise to halt the spread of slavery.
As a result of this, thousands of Missourians flooded into Kansas, inciting violence and illegally voting in favor of slavery. Basically, the Kansas-Nebraska led directly to Bleeding Kansas.
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