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Unidentified It was created in 1854, 4 years after the compromise was made. (Since the map was created during the period, it is pretty accurate.) Illinois Democratic Senator Stephen Douglas introduced popular sovereignty to organize the Kansas and Nebraska territory. Popular sovereignty allowed settlers in the territories to decide about slavery within their boundaries. The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820. The Compromise of 1850 was a series of bills passed to resolve slavery issues along the territory. California was admitted as a free state Texas was compensated for relinquishing claim to lands west of the Rio Grande New Mexico was formed without any slave prohibition Banned slave trade in the District of Columbia Fugitive Slave Law American public To identify free states and slave states Also to show the territorial changes from the compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act It eventually leads to civil war because leaving the new territories to be decided by popular sovereignty often created conflicts between the North and South.
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