The correct answer to this open question is the following.
Unfortunately, you did include context or reference to know what you are talking about. You write the name "Nelson." Nelson who? In what context? At what time? In what part of US history? Which events?
You need to include the proper contexts and references to better help you.
Trying to be of help we are going to assume that you are talking about George Nelson and his relationship to the fur trade in colonial American times. If that is teh case, then we can comment on the following.
George Nelson was born in Quebec, in 1798 after his parents relocated during the American Revolutionary War.
The trials and tribulations that Nelson describes were the ones presented in the fur trade when he worked for the "XY Company" in 1802. He was in charge of a fur trade outpost in the Northern Michigan Territory(modern-day Wisconsin). He was very young, he was 16 years old, and his inexperience created many conflicts buy his intelligence was an asset for the company.
Later in his life, we worked for the North West Company and the Hudson Bay Company. During his work life as a clerk in these companies, he kept the journals of the daily events. Today, the importance of these documents is that the journals describe the life and trade during those interesting times in North America.
As the first peaceful transition of political power between opposing parties in U.S. history, however, the election of 1800 had far-reaching significance. Jefferson appreciated the momentous change and his inaugural address called for reconciliation by declaring that, "We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists."
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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.
"Erastus D. Ladd is known for his "Description of the Lawrence Massacre" did not think that what these voters did were legal. They murdered a lot of people and ruined a town that was supposed to be Ladd's home. In the account, there were 240 orphans and 85 widows because of the massacre. "
