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the nebraska territory would open up and be divided into 2 states: nebraska and kansas. originally, nebraska would have been the free state and kansas the slave state BUT nebraska and kansas would be decided by popular sovereignty
That the people of each new state should vote whether it should be a slave-state or free soil. The principle was called 'Popular Sovereignty'.
After the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854 allowing the future state to choose whether to be a slave or state, many proslavery settlers came into the Kansas territory. Many of these settlers rushed over the border with Missouri, already a slave state, to influence the decision in Kansas.
Yes it was a slave state
Many southerners supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act because it allowed the citizens of these two newly formed states to choose, by popular vote, whether or not to be a slave state. The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed in 1854.