The Kansas-Nebraska act allowed the people to vote if wanted to allow slavery in those states and this act served to appeal the Missouri Compromise. The Missouri Compromise prohibited slavery in the north. This act was also said to be a failure because it was made to end the conflict over slavery, but resulted in Kansas becoming a "battleground over slavery."
Commonly referred to as the "Pennsy," the PRR was headquartered in Philadelphia<span>, Pennsylvania. The PRR was the largest railroad by traffic and revenue in the U.S. for the first half of the twentieth century.</span>
What people believed they followed so that effected their decisions and depending what they did that was the mark they left on the world.
