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.
By Robert McNamara. As the United States was being torn apart in the 1850s over the issue of slavery, the Kansas-Nebraska Act was devised as a compromise. It was hoped it would reduce tensions and perhaps provide a solution to the slavery issue.Yet when it was passed into law in 1854, it had the opposite effect.pposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Opponents of the Kansas-Nebraska Act organized themselves into the new Republican Party. And one particular American, Abraham Lincoln, was prompted to re-enter politics. Lincoln had served one unhappy term in Congress in the late 1840s, and had put his political aspirations aside.