According to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, all territories above the 36°30' N line would be free, while those below it would allow slavery. the people in each territory would vote on whether they wanted to allow slavery or not. the territories of Kansas and Nebraska would enter the Union as slave states. the territories of Kansas and Nebraska would enter the Union as free states.

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Slade

30 June, 03:27

According to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, all territories above the 36°30' N line would be free, while those below it would allow slavery. the people in each territory would vote on whether they wanted to allow slavery or not. the territories of Kansas and Nebraska would enter the Union as slave states. the territories of Kansas and Nebraska would enter the Union as free states.

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Jimena Myers · Answer 1

Answer the people in each territory would vote on whether they wanted to allow slavery

Jocelyn Gibson · Answer 2

The correct answer is the people in each territory would vote on whether they wanted to allow slavery or not.

The Kansas Nebraska Act included the concept of popular sovereignty. Popular sovereignty allows citizens to vote on an issue. In this case, it allowed the citizens of Kansas and Nebraska to vote on the issue of slavery. This ability to vote on slavery caused significant problems including voter fraud and violence between pro-slavery and anit-slavery citizens. This time period filled with violence over the existence of slavery in Kansas became known as Bleeding Kansas.