How did the kansas-nebraska act affect the abolition movement?

a.) the act incited so much violence that people stopped supporting abolition.
b.) the act spurred more people to join the movement, making it stronger.
c.) the act divided the abolition movement into factions and weakened it.
d.) the act encouraged more people to join proslavery groups instead.

The act spurred more people to join the movement, making it stronger

The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´.

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