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What is Allowing people who live in an arrangement to vote to decide an issue?
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What is sovereightny?
Popular sovereignty is allowing the people to decide on the issue themselves by voting instead of having the government decide. In the US it was used by the government in the territories to the West because of the intense issue of slavery. The people could decide if they were a slave state or not, but because of a corruption in the voting Bloody Kansas erupted and the fighting did not stop until the Civil war broke out just a bit later.
What is exercised when more than fifty percent of the people vote for and decide an issue?
majority rule
What is exercised when more than fifty percent of the people vote for and decide the issue?
majority rule
What is exercised when more than fifty percent of the people vote and decide an issue?
majority rule
What two states were given permission to decide between slave and free as of the Compromise of 1850?
Senator Stephan A. Douglas was the author of rhw Kansas-Nebraska Act that called for popular sovereignty. This was the "buzz word" for allowing people in the Territories to vote on the slavery issue.
In the term popular soveriegnty what does sovereignty mean?
Popular sovereignty is allowing the people to decide on the issue themselves by voting instead of having the government decide. In the US it was used by the government in the territories to the West because of the intense issue of slavery. The people could decide if they were a slave state or not, but because of a corruption in the voting Bloody Kansas erupted and the fighting did not stop until the Civil war broke out just a bit later.
What doctrine that allowed people living in the territories to decide the issue of slavery through their governmental bodies was?
popular sovereignty
What issue kept Americans divided over the issue of allowing Texas to join The US?
The issue you seek is slavery.
The doctrine that allowed people living in the territories to decide the issue of slavery through their governmental bodies was called?
Popular Sovereignty. -ssm466
What is the system where the residents vote to decide an issue?
A democrocy
On what issue did the convention decide to delay action until 1808?
It was delayed because of the dispute how to count the enslaved people. it was because of the " Slave Trade".
What statement best description of popular sovereignty?
the issue of slavery in the territories was to be decided through governmental bodies
