It was inflamed by the <span>Kansas-Nebraska Act. </span>
Arriving to class right before the test.
NORTHWEST TERRITORY. NORTHWEST TERRITORY. Part of the vast domain ceded by Great Britain to the United States in the Treaty of Paris (1783), the Northwest Territory encompassed the area west of Pennsylvania, east of the Mississippi River, and north of the Ohio River to the border with British Canada.
They made diplomatic relations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union possible