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The 26 pages that link to Kansas–Nebraska Act, each with the reason it gives.

• American Civil WarRelated: Its repeal of the Missouri Compromise line led to violent conflict over slavery's expansion.

• Abraham LincolnRelated: Lincoln condemned the act for reopening the expansion of slavery into federal territories.

• Republican PartyRelated: Its repeal of the Missouri Compromise helped trigger the party’s formation.

• Dred Scott v. SandfordRelated: Its repeal of the Missouri Compromise intensified the dispute over slavery in federal territories.

• Compromise of 1850Related: It displaced the compromise’s temporary arrangements with a new territorial policy that reignited conflict.

• Henry ClayRelated: Its repeal of the Missouri Compromise line exposed how unsettled the territorial question remained after Clay’s death.

• Homestead ActRelated: The conflict it provoked helped fracture national politics before the homestead bill passed.

• Bleeding KansasRelated: Its popular-sovereignty policy opened Kansas to competing campaigns over slavery.

• Fugitive Slave Act of 1850Related: It further inflamed sectional tensions already sharpened by the fugitive slave controversy.

• Wilmot ProvisoRelated: Its use of popular sovereignty renewed the struggle over whether slavery could expand into territories.

• Franklin PierceRelated: Pierce signed the act, whose popular-sovereignty provisions triggered violent conflict in Kansas.

• Jefferson DavisRelated: Davis supported the act’s popular-sovereignty approach amid escalating sectional conflict.

• Free Soil PartyRelated: Its repeal of the Missouri Compromise restriction helped trigger a new antislavery coalition.

• John BrownRelated: Its passage fueled the territorial struggle in which Brown and his sons fought.

• NebraskaRelated: The act organized Nebraska Territory and intensified national conflict over slavery.

• Antebellum SouthRelated: Its repeal of the Missouri Compromise line intensified sectional conflict.

• John C. BreckinridgeRelated: The act intensified the sectional conflict that fractured the Democratic Party Breckinridge joined.

• Lewis CassRelated: The act applied the principle associated with Cass, though its passage intensified sectional conflict.

• TopekaRelated: The act set off the territorial conflict that shaped Topeka’s early political history.

• KansasRelated: It created Kansas Territory and intensified conflict over slavery’s expansion.