<span>Redristricting is the method of drawing United States electoral
district boundaries. In 34 states, the state legislature has main
responsibility for creating a redistricting plan; Members of Congress, state
legislators, and many county and municipal offices are chosen by voters grouped
into districts. However once per decade, typically after a Census, district
lines are redrawn, block by block. Some districts increase residents, some lose
them. Some districts increase the numbers of minorities, some districts lose
them. District boundaries are redrawn to safeguard each district has about the
same number of people and to fulfill the constitutional guarantee that each
voter has an equal say.</span>
The domestic manufacture of new machine guns that civilians could purchase was effectively banned by language in the Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986 (also known as "McClure-Volkmer"). The language was added in an amendment from William J. Hughes and referred to as the Hughes Amendment.
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Pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers rushed to Kansas, each side hoping to determine the results of the first election held after the law went into effect. ... Opponents of the Kansas-Nebraska Act helped found the Republican Party, which opposed the spread of slavery into the territories.
The Transcontinental Railroad is the development replaced wagon trails as the quickest way for settlers to journey to the west after the Civil battle. A transcontinental railroad is a contiguous community of railroad trackage that crosses a continental land mass with terminals at one of a kind oceans or continental borders. The finishing touch of the transcontinental railroad enabled the Yankee conquest and settlement of the West.
