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In 1854 Illinois Senator Stephen A. Douglas pushed the Kansas-Nebraska Act through the United States Congress. The act said that residents of the two territories should decide for themselves whether slavery should be legal.
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United States (History); Douglas, Stephen Arnold; Civil War, American; Senate, United States
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