Analysis Of The Kansas-Nebraska Act

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act was a bill that allowed settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed in a new state border. The question for Kansas and Nebraska was whether they should be slave or free territories. Stephen A. Douglas wanted to create a northern transcontinental railroad route that would benefit Illinois constituents. The bill was passed and the act passed congress, but it failed in different purposes. The railroad was built but not where Douglas wanted it and it was voted by a republican congress during the Republican Civil War