How was the bleeding Kansas result

Bleeding Kansas ... The Kansas-Nebraska Act had allowed the people residing in the Kansas Territory to decide for themselves whether or not to permit slavery. This legislation overturned the earlier Missouri Compromise, which declared that Kansas was to be free of slavery.

Bleeding Kansas ... In 1854 the Kansas-Nebraksa Act overturned the Missouri Compromise's use of latitude as the boundary between slave and free territory and instead, using the principle of popular sovereignty, decreed that the residents would determine whether the area became a free state or a slave state.