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Nebraska will become a free state and kansas a slave state.
January 9th
Congress approves a territory's proposed constitution before it becomes a state.
Because the people of Kansas were allowed to vote whether the new state should be slave or free. This focused a lot of attention on Kansas, and terrorists from both sides crossed into the state to interfere with the voting.
Kansas didn't become a slave-state. The issue was put to a local vote, and terrorists from both sides invaded the state to try to intimidate the voters. After much violence ("Bleeding Kansas"), it became clear that quite a big majority wanted it to be a free state. It was the South that was upset.