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The Kansas-Nebraska Act was intended to facilitate the building of a transcontinental railroad through Midwestern territories but caused controversy when it allowed settlers through popular sovereignty to decide whether to allow slavery in the new territories of Kansas and Nebraska. The Act was drafted by Senator Stephen Douglas who hoped it would ease tensions between North and South by permitting both slavery and abolition, but it instead galvanized opposition and led to the formation of the Republican Party committed to stopping slavery's expansion.

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Dr. S. SIDHOM Computer Project 1. The following are the ages of 39 of the Oscar-winning actors and 39 actresses at the time they won the Oscar. Ages of the Actors Ages of the Actresses 32 50 37 44 Write a statistical report analyzing the given data. This report must be typed, doubled spaced. Be sure to attach the computer printout to support your findings. Excel is the required software to use. Hard copy of the report and attachments must be handed to the professor on the last day of lecture class. 36 35 32 80 51 26 53 28 33 41 61 21 35 61 45 38 55 49 39 33 76 74 37 30 42 33 40 41 32 31 60 35 38 41 56 42 48 37 48 26 40 34 43 34 62 35 43 26 42 61 44 60 41 34 56 24 39 30 46 37 31 31 47 27 45 39 60 34 46 26 40 25 36 33 THE LAW THAT RIPPED AMERICA IN TWO One hundred fifty years ago, the Kansas-Nebraska Act set the stage for America's civil war Abolitionist John Brown--failed businessman, sometime farmer and fulltime agent, he believed, of a God more disposed to retribution than mercy--rode into the Pottawatomie Valley in the new territory of Kansas on May 24, 1856, intent on imposing "a restraining fear" on his proslavery neighbors. With him were seven men, including four of his sons. An hour before midnight, Brown came to the cabin of a Tennessee emigrant named James Doyle, took him prisoner despite the pleadings of Doyle's desperate wife, and shot him dead. After butchering Doyle and two of his sons with broadswords, the party moved on to kill two other men, leaving one with his skull crushed, a hand severed and his body in Pottawatomie Creek. In a sense, the five proslavery settlers were casualties not merely of Brown's bloody-mindedness but also of a law described by historians William and Bruce Catton as possibly "the most fateful single piece of legislation in American history." Ironically, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, passed by Congress 150 years ago this month (100 years to the week before the landmark Supreme Court decision--Brown v. Board of Education--barring school segregation), was meant to quiet the furious national argument over slavery by letting the new Western territories decide whether to accept the practice, without the intrusion of the federal government. Yet by repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which had outlawed slavery everywhere in the Louisiana Purchase north of Missouri's southern border (except for Missouri itself), the new law inflamed the emotions it was intended to calm and wrenched the country apart. As a result of the legislation's passage, resentments became bloody hostilities, the Democratic Party lay shattered, a new Republican Party was created and an Illinois lawyer named Abraham Lincoln embarked on the road to the presidency. Had the law made civil war unavoidable? "I'd put it this way," says historian George B. Forgie of the University of Texas. "Whatever the chances of avoiding disunion before Kansas-Nebraska, they fell dramatically as a result of it." The.

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Classmate 1 The Rise of the Republican Party The Republican Party was formed due to a split in the Whig Party. The anti-slavery “Conscience Whigs” split from the pro-slavery “Cotton Whigs”. Some anti-slavery Whigs joined the American “Know-Nothing” Party, while the remainder joined with independent Democrats and Free-Soilers to form a new party, the Republicans. The initial members stood for one principle: the exclusion of slavery from the western territories (Shi, p. 462). Knowing the Republicans ideology, we will look at how the events leading up to the Kansas-Nebraska Act led to greater political division that eventually caused the formation of the Republican Party and it’s rise to the presidency in 1860. In the 1850’s, America was becoming increasingly divided between those for and against slavery. The Compromise of 1850 had temporarily appeased both sides by admitting California as a free state, allowing no slavery restrictions in New Mexico and Utah, paying Texas, abolishing slave trade but no slavery in the District of Columbia, establishing the Fugitive Slave Act, and denying congress authority to interfere with interstate slave trade (Shi, p. 457). This Fugitive Slave Act was highly contested, although very few slaves were returned to the south under this Act. In fact, it ended up uniting anti-slavery people, more than aiding the South. It was during this time that Uncle Tom’s Cabin was written, selling more than a million copies worldwide and detailing the harsh brutality of slavery (Shi, p. 460-461). In the mid-1850’s, the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed. The main reason for it was to the settle the vast territory west of Missouri and Iowa, and to create a transcontinental railroad to capitalize on Asian markets and goods. New territories brought up questions of whether slavery would be allowed, with many supporting “popular sovereignty” where voters chose whether they would have slavery or not. The issue here was that the 1820 Missouri Compromise had said there would be no new slavery above the 36th parallel (Shi, p. 462). In order to past the new Act, they repealed the Missouri Compromise and pushed the Act through Congress, passing by outvoting the anti-slavery Whigs. The dispute over the Kansas-Nebraska Act, ended up causing the breakdown of the new Republican party. One of the first to join the party was a young Illinois congressman, Abraham Lincoln. He believed the the north must mobilize to stop pro-slavery southerners or the Union was endangered (Shi, p.463). Nebraska voted against slavery, but Kansas became the hotbed of the Union. Pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups both set up governments and held elections, voting opposite of each other on slavery. Violence broke out between supporters of the groups, and about 200 people were killed in conflicts that became referred to as “Bleeding Kansas” (Shi, p. 463). Even members of the Congres.

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