U.S. Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which divided the Nebraska territory into the states of Kansas and Nebraska. He also championed popular sovereignty, which was the idea that states would choose for themselves whether they would become free or slave states. Kansas voted to become a slave state, which repealed the Missouri Compromise. In January 1861, as Southern states began to secede from the Union, Congress admitted Kansas as a free state.
Stephen Douglas
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