Answer: Popular Sovereignty
Explanation:
Prior to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the slave status of a new territory would be decided by the Missouri Compromise which based the state's slave status on geographical location as it prohibited slavery in states to the North of the 36°30′ parallel (excluding Missouri).
In 1854 however, a bill that would later be known as the Kansas-Nebraska Act was introduced to Congress by Sen. Stephen A. Douglas who hoped to gain support from Southern politicians for a state to be established on land gained from the Louisiana purchase.
The bill called for the status of a state to be decided by Popular Sovereignty which essentially meant that the people of the state would decide whether or not they wanted to be a free state instead of Congress as had previously been the case.
With this act therefore, the new territories would decide their status by themselves.
Answer:
I'm pretty sure the punctuation error is in the third sentence;
<em>'This struggle plays out chiefly through the protagonist; Charlie, who anchors the film brilliantly.'</em>
Just after the word 'protagonist', the author uses a semi-colon (;). A semi-colon is used to link two separate clauses that have similar ideas together. It turns two clauses into one.
In this situation, the semi-colon is not doing that, because that would imply that if we were to separate the "two clauses", it would look like this:
<em>"This struggle plays out chiefly through the protagonist. Charlie, who anchors the film brilliantly." </em>
This wouldn't make sense. Instead of a semi-colon, the author should've used a comma!
She's brave because she volunteered to put the sleeping powder in the cat's food, even though that's the very thing that her husband died doing.
She's determined because she went to an owl, a known enemy of mice such as herself, to find help.
She's kind because she freed the crow when he was tangled in string and was in danger of being eaten by the cat.
