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The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36Â°30Â´.
Stephen Douglas, a Democrat of Illinois, drafted the Kansas-Nebraska Act; it allowed the states in the North to decide to end slavery within its states, while the South could still allow slavery in that region. The act soon came under criticism as a tool to placate the slave powers of the South.