The Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) heightened the sectional crisis because it
a. repealed the Missouri Compromise
b. repealed the Fugitive Slave Act
c. made Kansas and Nebraska free states
d. stimulated Southern emigration to the territories taken from Mexico
e. signaled acceptance of the principle of the Wilmot Proviso
Ans: a. repealed the Missouri Compromise
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