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People in Utah and New Mexico got to vote to decide if they wanted to be a slave or free state.
compromise of 1850
The Act was meant to allow the people of each state to decide.
Kansas - Nebraska act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
No. It was a compromise in the Congress to work out problems between some states as to which side they were on. People could not decide on their own to own slaves. Some people in the South didn't want slavery.
People in Utah and New Mexico got to vote to decide if they wanted to be a slave or free state.
People in Utah and New Mexico got to vote to decide if they wanted to be a slave or free state.
Missouri compromise
The Compromise of 1850 did not allow any choice in the matter. It reflected the increasing difficulty of creating new slave-states. It was the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 that allowed the people of those two territories to vote on the slavery question. The only time it was tried (in Kansas), it led to terrible bloodshed, and was not tried again. The result was that Kansas rejected slavery.
It changed the balance of power which had previously existed by allowing those territories popular sovereignty to decide whether to allow slavery or not for themselves.
missouri compromise
Utah and New Mexico
Popular sovereignty
The senete
The Compromise of 1850 allowed California to be admitted to the Union as a free state on September 9, 1850. The Utah Territory and the New Mexico Territory were formed by the Compromise of 1850 and these two territories could permit or prohibit slavery as a local option (popular sovereignty).
The Kansas-Nebraska Act