Stephen Douglas hoped when pushing the Kansas-Nebraska act that
the everything would be settled democratically, without violence by the settler
that would be impartial but unfortunately this was at the same time the fatal
flaw of the act. People misunderstood the act which led to anger by the
southerners and the subsequent retaliation by the northerners as well as the
creation of two governments in Kansas one that was elected on fraud and other
that was not legal.
During the Holocaust, millions of Jews were put in concentration camps. This resulted in millions of deaths. After Nazi Germany was defeated by the Allied forces in 1945, the Jews who lived through the atrocities wanted a safe place to live. The British Mandate of Palestine was a strip of land in the middle east that Jewish people considered their "homeland." The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine declared that the British Mandate of Palestine would would be split into two new countries: Israel and Palestine. The Partition Plan passed through the United Nations. Israel declared independence soon after.
The renaissance impacted our world today because it started new techniques for creating paintings.
Here is the correct order of the aforementioned events:
1) The Radical Republicans introduce the Wade Davis Bill- This bill was introduced to President Abraham Lincoln in 1864.
2) President Abraham Lincoln vetoes the Wade Davis Bill- This means that Lincoln refused to sign this bill into law.
3) John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abe Lincoln- Lincoln is killed at the Ford Theater on April 14, 1865.
4) The Civil War officially ends- The last Confederate troops finally surrender to the Union on June 2nd of 1865.
5) The Radical Republicans form the Joint Committee on Reconstruction- This committee was established in December of 1865.
