Passed in May 1854 by Congress, the two new territories of Nebraska and Kansas were decides on the slavery issue. There was a hug debate over the whole thing, because Congress needed an equal balance, but Northerners were were outraged with the bill, saying that the bill broke the promise to limit slavery. But in order to keep some of the peace between the two, Stephen Douglas came up with the idea of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. This Act made it so that Nebraska belonged to the North, right next to the free state of Iowa. And Kansas would belong to the South, right next to the slave state of Missouri. This kept the representation in Congress equal.
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