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How Did Passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act Impact the Settlement

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How did passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act impact the settlement of Kansas?


A) The act's vagueness about the status of slavery greatly discouraged settlement to the
New state.
B) Popular sovereignty encouraged supporters and opponents of slavery to flood Kansas to vie for political control of the territory.
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 who had traveled from the South.
E) It was similar to the Compromise of 1850 in that it soon provided a sense of resolution regarding the issue of slavery in a new state.

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