The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 was an organic act that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. It was drafted by Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas, passed by the 33rd United States Congress, and signed into law by President Franklin Pierce. Douglas introduced the bill with the goal of opening up new lands to development and facilitating construction of a transcontinental railroad, but the Kansas–Nebraska Act is most notable for effectively repealing the Missouri Compromise, stoking national tensions over slavery, and contributing to a series of armed conflicts known as "Bleeding Kansas".
The United States had acquired vast amounts of sparsely-settled land in the 1803 Louisiana Purchase, and since the 1840s Douglas had sought to establish a territorial government in a portion of the Louisiana Purchase that was still unorganized. Douglas's efforts were stymied by Senator David Rice Atchison and other Southern leaders who refused to allow the creation of territories that banned slavery; slavery would have been banned because the Missouri Compromise outlawed slavery in territory north of latitude 36°30' north. To win the support of Southerners like Atchison, Pierce and Douglas agreed to back the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, with the status of slavery instead decided on the basis of "popular sovereignty." Under popular sovereignty, the citizens of each territory, rather than Congress, would determine whether or not slavery would be allowed.
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Option A
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Elizabeth Van Lew was an American abolitionist and the daughter of a wealthy family in Richmond that operated a spy ring for the Union Army during the Civil War. Elizabeth creates rapport with both capture prisoners and guards by been friendly, providing food and medicine to them and they gave her information on Confederate troops and movements unknowingly, which she was able to gather valuable information about Confederate strategy from both prisoners and guards, which was then passed on to Union commanders. She likewise helped union soldiers, smuggled out letters for them. She also runs her own network of spies. In late 1863, Union General Benjamin Butler recruited Van Lew as a spy because of her strong abolitionist sympathies; she soon became the head of an entire espionage network based in Richmond
<em>Elizabeth Van Lew gathered information from wounded Union soldiers before she was recruited as a spy by General Benjamin Butler because of her strong abolitionist sympathies</em>
"Separation of church and state" is paraphrased from Thomas Jefferson and used by others in expressing an understanding of the intent and function of the Establishment Clause and Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
