Repealed the missouri compromise of 1820
- was created as a means of constructing a transcontinental railroad
- created two new states in the middle of the united states
- let the states decide whether or not to allow slavery

which law is being described here?
a) gadsden purchase
b) northwest ordinance
c) kansas-nebraska act of 1854
d) oregon-washington purchase of 1848

Though the constitution dictates that the vice president is the leader of the senate the day-to-day leadership falls to what position

What is the role of institutions in society - do they perform positive functions, or simply work in the interests of the powerful and against the powerless? (a related question here is why do our life chances vary by class, gender and ethnicity)

Erika is a human resource manager at bluetel inc., a software company. she receives a call from an hr manager at another software company asking about marshall, a software engineer who used to work at bluetel and has applied for a job at the caller's company. erika checks the company's records and sees that a coworker had accused marshall of racial discrimination, but an investigation did not turn up any evidence to support the charge. marshall left the company two months later, saying he was no longer comfortable there. erika is concerned about sharing the details of this situation with the caller. if telling the information to the caller leads to the other company not hiring marshall, what potentially unlawful behavior could marshall accuse bluetel of engaging in?