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Franklin Pierce was a very important part of the act. Franklin was the 14th president, he was born in Hillsborough New Hampshire in 1804. He went to Bowdoin College at 24 and was elected to the state legislature. He became the speaker for New Hampshire two years later.
Stephen A Douglas was an American politician from Illinois. He was part of the democratic party and ran against Abraham Lincoln. He was born on April 23,1814. Later he introduced bill that divided Missouri into two territories. Those two territories were Kansas and Nebraska. He introduced that law to let each territory decide if slavery would be legal.

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The act was repealed by the Illinois senator, Stephen A. Douglas. The ambition of the bill was to create a war between Kansas and Nebraska. Senator Douglas abused his powers and used it to assure a transcontinental railroad route would be established in the north. Senator Douglas thought of it as a way to withdraw the Missouri compromise of 1820. He also drew a line between the two slave states.

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The Act was introduced in 1854. There were many states that disagreed on the topic of slavery. Stephen A Douglas introduced a law that split Missouri into territories. He created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. He used the law to ensure a transcontinental railroad would be eventually built there. He created the law because there was a lot of fighting over slavery.

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In 1854, the Kansas and Nebraska act mostly took place in the western territories. In the duration of 1840, they decided that Kansas and Nebraska would be motivated by the likelihood of a transcontinental railroad and a western settlement. Senator Stephen A. Douglas introduced the Kansas Nebraska act which he thought would serve as a last compromise. Senator Douglas would come out with approving the people of the Kansas and Nebraska territories.

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The Kansas and nebraska act was a law introduced by Stephen A Douglas. It was meant to overrule the Missouri compromise of 1820. On may 30,1854 The Kansas Nebraska act repealed the Missouri compromise.  It created two new territories now known as Kansas and Nebraska. Its produced a more violent uprising known as leading Kansas.

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How did this contribute to the tensions over the issue of slavery.

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How did this contribute to the tensions over the issue of slavery.

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The Kansas Nebraska act was meant to create a transcontinental railroad in the north. There was a lot of tension between the states and because of that they divided Missouri into the states now known as Nebraska and Kansas. The act let the states pick whether they wanted to make slavery legal or illegal. Because the act repealed the Missouri compromise it made slavery up to the territories.

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