the Kansas-Nebraska Act
/ðə ˌkænzəs nəˈbræskə ækt/
/ðə ˌkænzəs nəˈbræskə ækt/
- a law passed by the US Congress in 1854 which was one of the causes of the Civil War. It replaced the Missouri Compromise and established the Kansas Territory and the Nebraska Territory as regions which could vote on whether to have slaves or not. This caused people to come from both the South and the North to fight about the issue, until ' bleeding Kansas' had two rival governments.
堪萨斯-内布拉斯加州法案：1854年美国国会通过的一部法律，这是南北战争的起因之一。它取代了密苏里妥协，并建立了堪萨斯领地和内布拉斯加领地作为可以对是否有奴隶进行投票的地区。这导致来自南方和北方的人们都为这个问题而斗争，直到“堪萨斯州流血”有两个敌对政府。