Assess the Validity of the Following Statement: "The Compromise of 1850

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Essay

Assess the validity of the following statement: "The Compromise of 1850 and the enactment of the Kansas-Nebraska of 1854 made the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861 inevitable."

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Definitions:

Frequency Tabulation

A statistical method for organizing data into a table to show how often each different value occurs.

Tchebysheff's Theorem

A statistical theorem that provides a bound on the probability that the value of a random variable deviates from its mean by more than a certain multiple of its standard deviation.

Standard Deviations

Measures the amount of variation or dispersion from the mean in a set of data points.

Empirical Rule

A statistical rule stating that for a normal distribution, nearly all data will fall within three standard deviations (denoted as sigma) of the mean.