It has been done for the sake of political power, in order to bring two new slaveholding senators upon this floor. The senator who made the above statement was referring to the passage of the ______.
A
Fugitive Slave Act
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B
Kansas-Nebraska Act
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C
Dred Scott decision
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D
Reconstruction Acts
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E
Thirteenth Amendment
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Solution
The correct option is B Kansas-Nebraska Act The initial purpose of the Kansas–Nebraska Act was to open up thousands of new farms and make feasible a Midwestern Transcontinental Railroad. The popular sovereignty clause of the law led pro- and anti-slavery elements to flood into Kansas with the goal of voting slavery up or down, resulting in Bleeding Kansas.