City in Norway. Ãlen is a former municipality in the county of Rogaland, Norway. It was created on 1 July 1916 by a split from Fjelberg. Before 1 January 2002, Ãlen belonged to the county of Hordaland. Ãlen was incorporated into Vindafjord on 1 January 2006, decided by a referendum of 17 February 2003. Before the merger it had a population of 3,426.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36Â°30Â´.The Kansas-Nebraska Act infuriated many in the North who considered the Missouri Compromise to be a long-standing binding agreement. In the pro-slavery South it was strongly supported.fter the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed, pro-slavery and anti-slavery supporters rushed in to settle Kansas to affect the outcome of the first election held there after the law went into effect.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed for new territories to decide if they were a free or slave state by popular sovereignty. The Kansas-Nebraska Act undid the compromise that was made in the Missouri Compromise, which designated a line of latitude to be the separation of free and slave states.The Kansas-Nebraska act reignited the disagreement between pro and anti slavery factions.he Kansas-Nebraska Act undid the compromise that was made in the Missouri Compromise, which designated a line of latitude to be the separation of free and slave states. The Kansas-Nebraska act reignited the disagreement between pro and anti slavery factions.