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The Illinois senator who proposed the use of popular sovereignty in determining a state's slave status was?
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Believers in popular sovereignty proposed that the future of slavery in a territory should be decided by?
a territory's voters
Who was the senator that proposed popular sovereignty as the solution to slaverys expansion?
Senator Lewis Cass of Michigan proposed one solution. Cass suggested that the citizens of each new territory should be allowed to decide for themselves if they wanted to permit slavery or not. This idea came to be called popular sovereignty.
Who was the senator from Illinois who believed that the question of slavery in the territories should be settled by popular sovereignty?
Stephen Douglas
What is it called when the people have the power to make decisions about government?
popular sovereignty
What was popular sovereignty in 1850?
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.
What Illinois senator proposed the use of popular sovereignty in determining a state's slave status?
Stephen Douglas
Who proposed bringing popular sovereignty to Kansas?
Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois.
Who was the senator that proposed popular sovereignty as the solution to slavery's expansion?
Lewis Cass
Who was the senator that proposed popular sovereignty as the solution to slavery expansion?
Lewis Cass
Stephen Douglas proposed letting the people decide about slavery through?
popular sovereignty
Stephen A Douglas proposed letting the people decide about slavery through?
Popular Sovereignty
Where was the first attempt to apply the doctrine of popular sovereignty in determining the status of slavery occurred in?
Kansas
The first attempt to apply the doctrine of popular sovereignty in determining the status of slavery occurred in?
Kansas
What act was proposed by Stephen Douglass and allowed popular sovereignty in the territories?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
Believers in popular sovereignty proposed that the future of slavery in a territory should be decided by?
a territory's voters
Stephen Douglas promoted what as a way of determining whether a state should be slave or free?
popular sovereignty
Who wrote Kan-Neb Act granting popular sovereignty?
Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois
