popular sovereignty
Popular Sovereignty
Stephen Douglas proposed the idea of popular sovereignty, allowing territories to vote on whether to allow slavery. He believed this would settle the issue by letting the people in each territory decide for themselves.
Douglas proposed that the people within each new territory should decide the slavery question for themselves without regard to the rest of the country, known as Popular Sovereignty.
popular sovereignty
popular sovereignty
He called it Popular Sovereignty, and it sounded quite reasonable. But the first time it was tried (in Kansas), it encouraged armed raiders to invade the state and intimidate voters. By the way, Stephen Douglas is not double 's'.
Stephen Douglas supported popular sovereignity, also called squatter sovereignity, which stated that each territory had the right to determine if they would accept slavery or not.
Stephan A. Douglas proposed the Kansas Nebraska Act in 1854.
pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups
Stephen Douglas debated with Lincoln against slavery
It was the issue of slavery that Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A Douglas disagreed about during their political debates. Stephen A Douglas supported slavery while Abraham Lincoln opposed it.
Stephen A Douglas