It was "d. Stephen Douglas" who <span>wrote the legislation in the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, since this act was intended to avert a Civil War between the slave interests in the South and the abolitionists in the North. </span>
During the 1858 Senate race in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln gained national attention and gained the support of northern Republicans with his "House Divided" speech. Along with the Gettysburg Address and his second inaugural address, this became one of the best-known speeches of his career.
The malcontents were a group of people who came after the original settlers came. They came without help from the trustees so they didn't have the same loyalty as the other settlers did. They didn't like the rules that were put in place by the trustees, that's why they are called malcontents.
