The issue of popular sovereignty lay behind a crisis in 1845. The Missouri Compromise had prohibited slavery in the lands that made up Kansas and Nebraska. Yet the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 overturned that compromise by proposing that the question of slavery in those territories be decided by popular sovereignty. Violence follo

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Approximate Pages = 1 (250 words per page double spaced)