Editing Kansas–Nebraska Act (section)

===Enactment===
President [[Franklin Pierce]] signed the Kansas–Nebraska Act into law on May 30, 1854.<ref name="auto"/><ref name="senate.gov">{{cite web |url=https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Kansas_Nebraska_Act.htm |title=U.S. Senate: The Kansas–Nebraska Act |website=www.senate.gov |access-date=2019-03-12 |archive-date=2019-03-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329002617/https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Kansas_Nebraska_Act.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.americanheritage.com/content/pierce-signs-kansas-nebraska-act |title=Pierce signs the Kansas–Nebraska Act |first=Lee |last=Sutton |website=American Heritage |access-date=2019-03-12 |archive-date=2019-03-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331183237/https://www.americanheritage.com/content/pierce-signs-kansas-nebraska-act |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=Alexander2023>{{cite web |url=https://www.legendsofamerica.com/ks-bleedingkansas/ |first=Kathy |last=Alexander |title=Bleeding Kansas and the Missouri Border War |work=Legends of America |date=January 2023 |access-date=March 5, 2024 |quote=The Kansas-Nebraska Act also repealed the Missouri Compromise and reopened the issue of extending slavery north, allowing the two territories to decide the matter. As a result, settlement of the state was spurred, not so much by westward expansion as by the determination of both pro-slavery and abolitionist factions to achieve a majority population in the territory.}}</ref> This act repealed the [[Missouri Compromise]], "substituting for the ban on slavery what Douglas called 'popular sovereignty' ... arous[ing] a storm of protest throughout the North".<ref>[[Eric Foner|Foner, Eric]]. ''[[The Fiery Trial]]: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery''. W. W. Norton & Company, 2010, p. 63.</ref>