The first two battles were the Battles of Lexington and Concord, fought on April 19, 1775 and they were located in Massachusetts.
A Spanish friar who was present on the day of Cacique Hatuey's execution attempted to convert him to Christianity while he was bound and Spanish soldiers with lit torches approached. The friar explained to the chief- tain about conversion, baptism and the Catholic concept of heaven and hell
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed those states the right of popular sovereignty which meant that the territories would be admitted as states and the population from those states would be allowed to decide whether they wanted to become free states or states that allowed slavery. The south was probably the side that was most benefited from it since according to the Missouri Compromise those states were already free states, but the Kansas-Nebraska Act now gave supporters of slavery the opportunity to make those states slavery states . the issues that followed this act were cause by the coming into the territories of groups people both supporters of slavery or abolitionist that worked and sometimes used violence to get the states to be admitted into the Union as they wanted.
