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Stephen Douglas
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.
This was a pretty much a vote on pro-slavery or anti-slavery.
Allowing a local vote on the slavery question: 'Popular Sovereignty'
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Lewis Cass
Lewis Cass
Popular sovereignty was appealing as a solution to the emotional debate about the future of slavery in the US in various ways. The citizens were convinced that the power would rest with them and they thought that this would work in their favor.
Popular sovereignty was well supported because it allowed the local citizens of a territory to decide if slavery was to be allowed or illegal. Stephen A. Douglas pushed for popular sovereignty during the 1840's.
Stephen Douglas
Abraham Lincoln did not believe in popular sovereignty, he thought slavery was morally wrong.
Stephen Douglas believed in popular sovereignty, allowing residents of each territory to decide the issue of slavery for themselves through voting. He proposed this as a solution to the slavery issue in the territories, particularly during the debates surrounding the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
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.
the sovereignty of each state, known as popular sovereignty
Popular sovereignty allowed each territory to decide on the issue of slavery through a popular vote. This led to intense and violent conflicts like Bleeding Kansas because pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers flooded the territory to sway the vote in their favor, resulting in armed confrontations and confusion. The inability to peacefully settle the issue in Kansas-Nebraska demonstrated the limitations and flaws of popular sovereignty as a solution to the slavery debate.
This was a pretty much a vote on pro-slavery or anti-slavery.
Allowing a local vote on the slavery question: 'Popular Sovereignty'