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1. should have been admitted to the Union as freestates. ... In 1854, Congress passed the Kansas Nebraska Act , which allowed the people in the 2 territories to elect representatives to choose to either be free or slave states.

2.The Kansas-Nebraska Act was an 1854 bill that mandated “popular sovereignty”–allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state's borders. Proposed by Stephen A.

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the secretary of state, appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the senate, is the president's chief foreign affairs adviser. the secretary carries out the president's foreign policies through the state department and the foreign service of the united states.