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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Explanation: Hoover adopted the behavior typical of a Keynesian textbook after the stock market crash. He immediately cut income tax rates by 1 percent (valid for fiscal year 1929) and began to increase federal spending by 42 percent between the 1930s and 1932 tax years.
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Luther was disappointed by what he saw in Rome. Observing the discussions he started to see the clergyman as incompetent, petulant and cynical. The experience made Luther question the Catholic Church.
The doubts continued to germinate in the following years. Using his experience in Bible studies, he proceeded to outline his own interpretation of the Bible. This view diverged from some Catholic maxims.
He went on to say in his sermons at Wittenberg that priests had no power to grant forgiveness. For Luther, forgiveness came from within and no one would be able to bestow it on someone else, be it a priest or a pope. This contradicted the view of the Catholic Church.
Luther also began to reject indulgence, a practice in which a wealthy person sold part of his merits, especially in the form of payment to the church, to save another of dubious faith. He also doubted that the pope would be able to remove a person's soul from purgatory if one of his living relatives paid.
