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 keep people as 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.
美国国会于 1854 年通过的一项法律，是内战的原因之一。它取代了密苏里妥协案，并建立了堪萨斯领地和内布拉斯加州领地作为可以投票决定是否保留人民为奴隶的地区。这导致南方和北方的人们就这个问题争论不休，直到“流血的堪萨斯”出现了两个敌对政府。