Answer: Senator Stephen Douglas proposed the bill that became the Kansas-Nebraska Act as a way of getting southern support for Nebraska statehood. Douglas was seeking to bring Nebraska into the Union in order to bring those lands under government authority and lay the groundwork for building a Midwestern route of transcontinental railroad that would run to Chicago and benefit his state (Illinois). The compromise to gain support from the South was to create two states, Nebraska and Kansas, and allow voters in those areas to choose whether they'd be slave or free. The thought was that Kansas might end up as a slave state and Nebraska as a free state, thus maintaining the balance between free and slave states.
Further detail:
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was enacted by Congress in 1854. It granted popular sovereignty to the people in the Kansas and Nebraska territories, letting them decide whether they'd allow slavery. In essence, this made the Kansas-Nebraska act a repeal of the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which had said there would be no slavery north of latitude 36°30´ except for Missouri.
After the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers rushed into Kansas to try to sway the outcome of the issue, and violence between the two sides occurred. The term "bleeding Kansas" was used because of the bloodshed. Kansas and Nebraska ended up as free states, but the Kansas-Nebraska Act had allowed the possibility that slavery could become slave states.
The answer to this question is false
<span>Mahmud of Ghanzi was the most famous ruler of the Ghaznavid Empire. After the death of his father Sabuktigin, Mahmud separated from the Samanid Empire. By conquering what is now Pakistan, eastern Iran, and Afganistan, he turned the city of Ghazna into the capital of an empire. He was also the first ruler of the Empire to take the title Sultan.</span>
The answer is: Colonial Law<span> was based on two main influences - the English </span>law<span> and culture at the time, and the religious </span>beliefs<span> of the colonists. ... The first Pilgrim </span>laws were<span> in the Mayflower Compact, the first written </span>colonial<span> plan of 1620.</span>
The answer is concrete.
<span>The Romans' ingenious use of concrete was
instrumental in the construction of the great cathedrals of Europe 1,000 years
later. Vaulting of concrete completed the building of the great cathedrals and amphitheater
of the Romans. It also made the Pantheon dome and the Palestrina’s Sanctuary of
Fortuna Primigenia. </span>
