Popular sovereignty-_-Apex
Popular sovereignty-_-Apex
Popular sovereignty-_-Apex
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.
The law that let states decide whether or not to allow slavery was the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which states that any power not specifically delegated to the federal government is reserved to the states or the people. This allowed states to make their own decisions regarding the legality of slavery within their borders.
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.
Settlers in Kansas and Nebraska were allowed to decide the slavery issue through the principle of "popular sovereignty," established by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. This act allowed the residents of these territories to vote on whether to permit slavery or not, effectively circumventing the Missouri Compromise. This led to significant conflict, known as "Bleeding Kansas," as pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers rushed to the territories to influence the vote. The resulting violence highlighted the deep divisions over slavery in the United States.
The principle of popular sovereignty, embodied in legislation like the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, allowed residents of new states and territories to decide for themselves whether to permit slavery through popular vote. This approach was meant to settle the issue of slavery expansion peacefully, but it ultimately heightened tensions and contributed to the outbreak of the Civil War.
The areas in question were Utah and New Mexico.
The Compromise of 1850 allowed the territories of New Mexico and Utah to decide whether they wanted slavery through the principle of popular sovereignty. This meant that the settlers in those territories would vote on whether to permit slavery, rather than having Congress make that decision for them. The compromise aimed to ease tensions between free and slave states following the Mexican-American War.
Vermont was the first state in the United States to abolish slavery in its constitution in 1777. Other states that never allowed slavery include Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania.
Abraham Lincoln said that he believed in letting the people decide whether or not they wanted slavery, particularly in reference to the territories in the United States at the time. This view was part of his approach to handling the issue of slavery in the lead up to the American Civil War.
There was a vote for slavery with the Kansas Nebraska Act. The states held an election to decide if they would come in free or slave.