Stephen Douglas hoped when pushing the Kansas-Nebraska act that
the everything would be settled democratically, without violence by the settler
that would be impartial but unfortunately this was at the same time the fatal
flaw of the act. People misunderstood the act which led to anger by the
southerners and the subsequent retaliation by the northerners as well as the
creation of two governments in Kansas one that was elected on fraud and other
that was not legal.
This unexpected Northern win gave Lincoln the credibility to issue the Emancipation Proclamation without making it look like a desperate measure.The Proclamation made it ethically impossible for Britain to aid the Confederates - a most significant outcome.The battle also spelt the end for McClellan.Although he had won the battle, he failed to pursue and destroy the Army of Northern Virginia, which the whole of Lincoln's cabinet thought he should have <span>done, and he was promptly replaced by Burnside.</span>
<span>Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev</span>
He was a Russian chemist and inventor. He formulated the Periodic Law, created a farsighted version of the periodic table of elements,
and used it to correct the properties of some already discovered
elements and also to predict the properties of eight elements yet to be
discovered.
