It didn't resolve any disputes.
This hopeful attempt to resolve the slavery dispute through a local vote resulted in intimidation and bloodshed.
It unfortunately demonstrated that the issue would be settled only through war.
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The controversial issue of which new states would be slave and which would be free.
The Act allowed the local population to vote on it.
Kansas and Nebraska
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Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas
The Kansas-Nebraska Act also led to "Bleeding Kansas," a mini civil war that erupted in Kansas in 1856. Northerners and Southerners flooded Kansas in 1854 and 1855, determined to convert the future state to their view on slavery.