How did passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act impact the settlement of Kansas?
A) The vagaries left about the status of slavery discouraged settlement.
B) Popular sovereignty encouraged violence-prone supporters and opponents of slavery to flood Kansas.
C) It ensured that Kansas would be admitted into the Union as a free state with a population deeply committed to abolition.
D) It made Kansas a slave state with a majority population of slaveholders.
E) This is a trick question. The act had no impact on settlement of Kansas.
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