The main purpose of the Kansas-Nebraska act was, YUP! you guessed it, to create Kansas and Nebraska. It also repealed the Missouri Compromise, which stated that there had to be a balanced amount of free and slave states. This was good news to southern states, however the northerners did not like the idea that a state could choose whether or not they allowed slavery, depending on popular sovereignty There tension inside Kansas as well, because their people had different views on slavery. This led to a civil war, which was later named 'Bleeding Kansas'. Kansas was admitted as a free state.
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