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In the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the idea of popular sovereignty meant what?

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act was an 1854 bill that mandated “popular sovereignty”–allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state's borders

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