1. Congress reopened the question of slavery when it passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act in what year?
A. 1852
B. 1854
2. By January, groups in Kansas had formed two rival governments, one free and one slave in what year?
A. 1855
B. 1856
B) The time it became a law was on May 30, 1854. The Kansas-Nebraska Act revoked the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for sought-after soverrignty.