<span>Historians would probably credit SCRIBES AND PRIESTS. The reason why is that scribes manually wrote every single book there was - they had to rewrite thousands of pages from manuscripts, and they were the original 'printing machines.' On the other hand, priests saved all those books in churches and libraries, which is why we still have records of ancient times.</span>
The provisions of the Missouri Compromise forbidding slavery in the former Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36°30′ north were effectively repealed by Stephen A. Douglas's Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854.
Thomas Gibbons was allowed to operate his steamboats in New York. It was a case when a historic point choice in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the ability to manage interstate trade, allowed to Congress by the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution, enveloped the ability to direct route.