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Under what idea let voters in a terrtiory decide whether or not to allow slavery in their state?
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The idea was called 'Popular Sovereignty', a phrase coined by Stephen Douglas, and it was the basis for the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
It sounded reasonable enough. But it suffered from one fatal flaw. It meant one state voting at a time - so that one state would become a magnet for every bully-boy from both sides, to try to sway the voting through violence, intimidation and corruption.
When it was tried, in Kansas, the result went down in history as 'Bleeding Kansas'.
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What was the belief that voters should be given the right to decide if slavery would be permitted or banned?
popular sovereignty
How do voters decide who the best person is in a campaign?
Which ever candidate most coincides with the voters positions on different issues
Believers in popular sovereignty proposed that the future of slavery in a territory should be decided by?
a territory's voters
What was the concept that Stephen A Douglass proposed by letting the people decide about slavery through?
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'.
What did Johnson require states to do to regain membership in the Union?
voters had to ratify the thirteenth amendment and state constitutions had to ban slavery
Under this idea voters in a territory could decide whether or not to allow slavery in their state?
popular sovereignty
What was the belief that voters should be given the right to decide if slavery would be permitted or banned?
popular sovereignty
A proposed law or constitutional amendment the legislature ask voters to decide on?
In some states, an automatic ballot referrals allows voters to decide at regular intervals whether to hold a convention.
What allowed voters to decide issues?
Who allowed voters to decide issues
Did the north or the south say the right of slavery is the right of a state to decide?
Congressmen from the South were the first proponents of allowing the voters of a State decide the free or slavery issues. An amendment was bitterly passed however that when slaves reached the age of 25, they would be freed.
What was another name for letting voters decide for themselves whether their state should be a slave or a free state?
Popular Sovereignty
What would decide weather slavery would be allowed in a territory idea of popular sovereignty?
By the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854, voters in the US territories would decide whether the "soon to be state" would enter as a free state or a slave state. This Act was the result of Senator Stephan Douglas's ideas to solve the slave-free state crisis.
How did antislavery northerners hope to prevent slavery in Kansas?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of the U.S. Congress said voters in these territories to choose whether they would allow slavery or not. Thousands of antislavery northerners went into Kansas and voted to forbid slavery, then returned home.
What were the main issues decided by the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Whether to allow Slavery in the new states obtained in the Louisiana Territory and specifically in Kansas and Nebraska. The method used was to allow the voters of the states decide the slavery question as a step towards admission to the union. Nebraska was pretty much anti-slavery so the idea was OK there, but things were different in Kansas. The election produces a bloody battle and all sorts of conflicts and attempts to rig the election.
Why did antis slavery and pro slavery groups encourage people to move to Kansas?
At best - to buy cheap properties that would entitle them to vote on whether Kansas should be slave or free. At worst - to intimidate voters and try to declare the ballots to be rigged.
Define majority rule?
majority vote passes laws and majority voters decide elections
How do voters decide who the best person is in a campaign?
Which ever candidate most coincides with the voters positions on different issues
