The Kansas-Nebraska Act was the name for a bill created by Stephen Douglas which established a government for the Nebraska Territory. Seeing as if this territory would become free or slave, it would untip the balance of free and slave state in the Untie States. The Kansas-Nebraska Act proposed that the Nebrask Territory be divided into two territories, Kansas and Nebraska, and the issue of slavery would be determined through popular sovereignty. This act was not a new a new concept for settlers, as it seemed to resemble the Compromise of 1850. Southerners were pleased with the Kansas-Nebraska act because the believed the the Missouri slave owners would move into Kansas to vote. Northerners did not support the act because this would in turn repeal the Missouri Compromise which bannished slavery from Kansas and Nebraska.