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The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850, specifically the provision that prohibited slavery in territories north of the 36°30’ parallel. Instead, the Act allowed for the potential expansion of slavery into those territories based on popular sovereignty.
It repealed the Missouri Compromise arrangement, and replaced it with 'Popular Sovereignty' - i.e. getting each new state to vote whether to be slave or free.
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because it ended the missouri compromise