Stephen Douglas's motivation for introducing the Kansas-Nebraska Act was to:
A) boost efforts to build a transcontinental railroad.
B) spread slavery.
C) win the position of speaker of the House of Representatives.
D) pacify southerners who strongly supported the idea of popular sovereignty.
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