The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed those states the right of popular sovereignty which meant that the territories would be admitted as states and the population from those states would be allowed to decide whether they wanted to become free states or states that allowed slavery. The south was probably the side that was most benefited from it since according to the Missouri Compromise those states were already free states, but the Kansas-Nebraska Act now gave supporters of slavery the opportunity to make those states slavery states . the issues that followed this act were cause by the coming into the territories of groups people both supporters of slavery or abolitionist that worked and sometimes used violence to get the states to be admitted into the Union as they wanted.
Cotton, could be used in a multitude of products. from clothes to furniture. Cotton could also be harvested all year in the south due to the high temperatures. With the addition of free slave labor. A planter could make a profitable amount of money.
<span>According to the FBI's crime clock, a murder occurs in the United States every 35 minutes and There is a robbery every 1 minute and 30 seconds and a vehicle theft once every 40 seconds.</span>
