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Abolitionists also flowed southward through southeast Nebraska – avoiding Missouri, a slave state and diverting through Iowa, a free state – to join the “Bleeding Kansas” fight over slavery.

When the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 was passed, it allowed the people in those territories to decide for themselves whether they wanted to be free or slave states.

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The Civil War did not begin with the firing of the first cannons in 1861. Instead, it began in Kansas as settlers took strong stances, either for or against slavery.

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In 1854 the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act served as a catalyst to war and created the conditions that led to the birth of the Republican Party and Lincoln’s political ascendancy.