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.
KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT. KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT of 1854 organized the northern Great Plains into the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. It also repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which had prohibited slavery's expansion into the territories northwest of the border between the states of Arkansas and Missouri.y 1854, however, the flood of settlers heading west to the Nebraska territory exposed the failure of the Compromise and brought the slavery issue before Congress once again. The Kansas-Nebraska Act was the brainchild of Senator Stephen A. Douglas (1813 â 1861), a Democrat from Illinois.