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It became law on May 30, 1854. The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty. It also produced a violent uprising known as “Bleeding Kansas,” as proslavery and antislavery activists flooded into the territories to sway the vote.
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400 years ago America consisted of a few colonies, financed by private investments, whose inhabitants were mainly religious minorities.
The experiment was both a religious and an economic one: to develop a colony, in the other side of the world, where a religious, homogeneous minoroty could develop an economy, mostly self-sustaining, but also with the goal of trading with the local inhabitants.