How did passage of the kansas-nebraska act impact the settlement of kansas? select one: a. the act had no impact on the settlement of kansas. b. popular sovereignty encouraged violence-prone supporters and opponents of slavery to flood kansas. c. the vagaries left about the status of slavery discouraged settlement. d. it ensured that kansas would be admitted into the union as a free state with a population deeply committed to abolition. e. it made kansas a slave state with a majority population of slaveholders?