Why did Stephen Douglas introduce the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
A) to facilitate the construction of a transcontinental railroad
B) to accelerate the demise of slavery
C) to balance the admission of Missouri and South Dakota as slave states
D) to appease southern slaveholders and northern textile producers
Answer: A
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