Flashcard sets with a 'kansas-nebraska act' term meaning 'a bill by stephen douglas opening kansas and nebraska territory for white settlement, would make that land safe to run the transcontinental railroad through, so that douglas's home city of chicago would be the eastern terminal; the bill included the implementation of the controversial popular sovereignty and repealed the missouri compromise; northerners thought was proslavery and protested; most likely cost douglas the presidency'

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