Free-Soilers and abolitionists were outraged by the Kansas-Nebraska Act because it
A) allowed slaves to be traded across the Missouri River.
B) admitted both Kansas and Nebraska to the Union as slave states.
C) seemed to foreshadow the admission of all new states as slave states.
D) was thought to have passed only because of corruption and bribery.
E) was viewed as evidence that Southerners planned to extend slavery wherever possible.
E
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