The Kansas-Nebraska Act increased sectional tensions because it _______________________________.

supported pro-slavery constitutions in both Nebraska and Kansas

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repealed the Compromise of 1850.

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enriched Southern railroad investors at the expense of the North

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was ruled unconstitutional by what was seen as a biased and pro-South Supreme Court.

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was seen as a violation of the long-standing sectional balance created by the Missouri Compromise.

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Solution

The correct option is A supported pro-slavery constitutions in both Nebraska and Kansas
Stephen A. Douglas was a Democratic Senator who drafted the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854). The Act allowed the people settled in the territories to decide for themselves whether to allow slavery in their territory or not.

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I. "The Kansas-Nebraska Act authorizes the further extension of slavery and we have, do now, and will continue to protest most emphatically against slavery." (1854)

II. "The territories were the common property of the several states. As a joint agent of the states, Congress has no power to deny the citizens of any state the right to take their property into a territory Therefore slavery is legal in the territories. If Wilmot carries, woe, woe I say to the union." (1850)

III. "We beg the slave owners to pause before they proceed further to disturb the peace we had hoped the Compromise of 1850 would have made perpetual." (1854)

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