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How did the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act contribute to the later outbreak of the Civil War?


a)It allowed enslaved persons in Kansas to buy their freedom.


b)It emancipated all slaves living in Kansas and Nebraska, causing resentment in the South.


c)It reopened the question of whether slavery would be permitted in some Western territories.


d)It encouraged abolitionists by halting the spread of slavery into Kansas and New Mexico.

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The unfortunate passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which became the breeding ground for the Civil War, c) reopened the question of whether ...

The Act intensified the existing tension between the North and South, eventually leading to the outbreak of the U.S. Civil War but did not:

  • Allow freedom for enslave persons
  • Free slaves in Kansas and Nebraska
  • Halt the spread of slavery.

Instead, the Kansas-Nebraska Act achieved the following:

  • Repealed the Missouri Compromise, which balanced power in Congress
  • Shifted the balance of power, increasing the number of slave states
  • Permitted territories to decide whether to allow slavery
  • Gave former slave owners the right to recapture runaway slaves
  • Widened the rift between the North and South, leading to the Civil War.

Thus, the Act reopened a closed slavery issue and created crisis that built up confrontations for the Civil War.

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