Why did so many northerners, including the so-called Independent Democrats, oppose the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
A) They opposed the admission of both territories as states.
B) The act repealed the Fugitive Slave Law.
C) The act would bring about immediate abolition.
D) The act repealed the Missouri Compromise.
E) They opposed the law because it did not embrace "popular sovereignty."
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