It was the Kansas-Nebraska Act that led up to the disintegration of the Whig Party.
He passed away in February 2012 at the age of 43 hope this helps
1. direct vote by citizens on a bill already passed by a lawmaking body - referendum.
2. government that suppresses all opposition and controls all aspects of people's lives - totalitarian.
3. greed for wealth - avarice.
4. the right to vote - franchise.
5. the right of ordinary citizens to introduce or enact new laws on their own by vote - intiative.
6. government in which a few people hold the ruling power - oligarchy.
7. method of temporary banishment practiced in athens - ostracism.