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The area just beyond established settlements is known as the frontier.

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What are the religious reasons the middle colonies were founded?

The availability of land in rural sections often led to thinly settled communities, which for reasons of economy shared church buildings and even preachers. In more urban areas, social mixing, economic interdependence, and intermarriage blurred religious differences or reduced


How did the Kansas-Nebraska act affect the North?

It allowed Kansas to enter the USA as free soil - after every bully-boy in America had descended on that thinly-populated state, to try and interrupt the voting. ("Bleeding Kansas")


Why was there violence in Kansas?

Because for the first time, new states were allowed to vote on whether to be slave or free. This brought disastrous consequences. By allowing one state at a time to vote, it concentrated attention on a small and thinly-populated area, that was vulnerable to cross-border interference from extremists from both sides. At best, outsiders would buy a cheap property in order to qualify for the vote. At worst, they would simply terrorise the voters and try to declare the results to be rigged. That was the year of Bleeding Kansas. It proved that the slavery debate would never be settled, except through vioence, and some historians regard these as the opening shots of the Civil War.


What impact did the Kansas nebraska act have on sectional harmony?

It destroyed it. By allowing one state at a time to vote on the slavery issue, it attracted every bully-boy in America to that one thinly-populated area, to intimidate voters and corrupt the ballots. ("Bleeding Kansas").


Where did the Native Americans live in US?

They may have been very thinly spread compared to the population of the planet today, but they were all over the US and Canada. From Quebec and New England tribes, south to the Seminoles in Florida, and westward to the tribes of Washington and California. There were also many tribes such as the Arawak in the West Indies and northern South America, and the Aztecs and other surviving tribes of Mexico and Central America.