The major impact of the Kansas-Nebraska Act was that it brought the US closer to a civil war and ended the Missouri compromise. The effect of the Missouri Compromise was to keep the political balance between both slave states and free states by putting them into the union in pairs. It also brought the U.S. closer because it brought the question of slavery back up in states and areas where the issue and place of slavery had already been decided before. Kansas and Nebraska were supposed to be territories that are free from slavery. Meaning that slavery was not allowed in these places. When the idea of slavery was brought back up in these territories many people in the North were outraged because they saw it as evidence of the government taking
