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It created the Nebraska and Kansas territories. Repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820. Allowed settlers to determine if they wanted slavery or not. Also was initial started to create the opportunity to for Mideastern Transcontinental Railroad, and aroused the debate of slavery again among the Northern and Southern states.

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It gave rise to 'Bleeding Kansas' - rival groups descending on this one thinly-populated state to influence the local vote that would decide whether the new state would be slave or free.

Many call these the first shots of the Civil War.

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It would allow the citizens of each new state to vote on whether to be slave or free - so-called Popular Sovereignty.

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