Popular sovernty was related to slavery because before the civil war Stephen Douglas said that the states should have popular sovernty and what he meant was the states have a right to choose if they wanted to be a slave state or not. This nullified the Missouri compromise which said any state above Missouri would be a free state.
Popular sovereignty. And by any chance, are you asking this because of a social studies map pack?
This was a pretty much a vote on pro-slavery or anti-slavery.
The South was the center of slavery. More specifically, Alabama and Georgia were the main states where slavery was most popular.
Settlers of some new territories were able to decide about slavery for themselves.
In Mississippi & in North Carolina.
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No, voluntary slavery is not legal in any country. Slavery is universally condemned and prohibited by international law.
Nearly free labor.
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Study Island: Settlers of some new territories were able to decide about slavery for themselves.
The concept of popular sovereignty was introduced by the 1854 Kansas Nebraska Act. The term did not apply to any particular law or concept that was related to slavery. The term was coined by Illinois Senator Stephen A. Douglas.