What is the purpose of the 14 executive departments?

The kansas-nebraska act allowed the territories of kansas and nebraska to decide the issue of slavery by popular sovereignty. the people who lived in these territories would be able to vote on whether slavery would be allowed there. what effect did this have on kansas? a. settlers voted to allow slavery only in half of the territory. b. kansas became a slave state and joined the confederacy. c. settlers held a series of debates to them decide. d. pro-slavery settlers fought against anti-slavery settlers.

Which statement defines personality

“dear sir: it is with great reluctance, i trouble you on a subject, which does not fall within your province; but it is a subject that occasions me more distress, than i have felt, since the commencement of the war; and which loudly demands the most zealous exertions of every person of weight and authority, who is interested in the success of our affairs. i mean the present dreadful situation of the army for want of provisions, and the miserable prospects before us, with respect to futurity. it is more alarming than you will probably conceive, for, to form a just idea, it were necessary to be on the spot. for some days past, there has been little less, than a famine in camp. a part of the army has been a week, without any kind of flesh, and the rest for three or four days. naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their sufferings, to a general mutiny or dispersion. strong symptoms, however, discontent have appeared in particular instances; and nothing but the most acitive efforts every where can long avert so shocking a catastrophe.” what’s the central idea?