MAY 30, 1854:
The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 (10 Stat. 277) created the territories
of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of
effectively repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing settlers in
those territories to determine through Popular Sovereignty whether they would
allow slavery within each territory. Within weeks of the effective date of the Act, Free Soil and Pro-Slavery factions in each territory, but especially Kansas, are at each others' throats.
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