The amount of energy released by the combustion of a given fuel is the result of the subtracting the energy required to break the bonds of the reactants from the energy released by the formation of bonds in the products.
Kansas Nebraska Act. This Act set up Kansas and Nebraska as states. Each state would use popular sovereignty to decide what to do about slavery. People who were pro-slavery and antislavery moved to Kansas, but some antislavery settlers were against the Act.
And while no one in 1854 may have foreseen it, the Kansas-Nebraska Act had set the nation hurtling toward an eventual Civil War. 1  The Compromise of 1850 Delayed the Civil Yet Still Created Controversy. 2  9 Key Events That Led to the American Civil War. 3  The Great Compromises Over Slavery That Delayed the Civil War.