Kansas-Nebraska Act ​Kansas-Nebraska Act Video​ ​Bleeding Kansas Video ● The act established that in these territories, the principle of popular sovereignty would apply, meaning that the white residents of each territory would vote on whether to permit slavery when applying for statehood.
● The Act repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which drew the horizontal line of slavery across the West along the 36° 30' parallel, as both Kansas and Nebraska were north of this line.
● This reopened the question of slavery’s western expansion.
● The passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act induced party realignment and violence,
furthering the sectional divide that ultimately erupted in the Civil War.
Discuss: How did Bleeding Kansas demonstrate the sectional differences between the North and the South?