The American Civil War was fought between the United States of America and the Confederate States of America, a collection of eleven southern states that left the Union in 1860 and 1861. The conflict began primarily as a result of the long-standing disagreement over the institution of slavery. On February 9, 1861, Jefferson Davis, a former U.S. Senator and Secretary of War, was elected President of the Confederate States of America by the members of the Confederate constitutional convention. After four bloody years of conflict, the United States defeated the Confederate States. In the end, the states that were in rebellion were readmitted to the United States, and the institution of slavery was abolished nation-wide.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act<span> was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of </span>Kansas<span> and</span>Nebraska<span> to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The </span>Act<span> served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´.</span>
They were trying to find new land, so they could settle.
The reason for this is that Romans were at the time a very highly developed civilization while the Huns, together with other tribes with which the Romans have dealt with in previous decades, were mostly nomads who did not have permament and grand settlements such as Rome at the time for example. For that reason, this might have made historians like Ammianus be inclined to think that Huns were savage brutes without the capability to think.
Campaign finance in the United States is the financing of electoral campaigns at the federal, state, and local levels. At the federal level, campaign finance law is enacted by Congress and enforced by the Federal Election Commission (FEC), an independent federal agency.
