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14 July, 20:46

Why did southerners support the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

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  1. 14 July, 20:51
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    The Popular Sovereignty clause in the Act meant the territories might allow slavery and enter the Union as slave states ... Under the Missouri Compromise, slavery had not been allowed in the territories of Kansas or Nebraska; now that ban could be lifted.
  2. 14 July, 20:54
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    They thought that granting popular sovereignty would allow slavery.
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