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Kansas-Nebraska Act: Civil War
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The result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act was a mini-Civil War. Proslavery and antislavery groups emigrated to Kansas and Nebraska (Kansas particularly) and proceeded to fight each other. The phrase “bleeding Kansas” became popular to describe the situation there.
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[O]f the Kansas-Nebraska Act a new political organization was formed, the Republican party. It was founded by the opponents of the bill and ... led to the end of the Whig party. The frist leader of this new party was Abraham Lincoln who then had to deal with the problems facing the country, the biggest of which was the onset of the Civil War.
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Passed by Congress in 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act has been called the most momentous piece of legislation in the United States before the American Civil War. It set in motion events that led directly to the conflict over slavery.
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