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What is it called when Letting each state vote whether to have slavery or not?
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What presidential candidate in 1860 wanted to avoid controversy over slavery?
Stephan A. Douglas , Democrat, was probably the most flexible on the slavery question. He proposed popular sovereignty -- letting the people of a state or territory decide by an election whether of not to allow slavery in their state.
What was an American state where slavery is not allowed by law called?
An American state where slavery was not allowed by law was called a "free state." These states did not permit the practice of slavery within their boundaries, in contrast to states where slavery was legal.
What position did Abraham Lincoln take on slavery during the Lincoln-Douglas debates?
Lincoln argued that it was wrong to decide whether to allow slavery in a state or territory by voting
What was another name for letting voters decide for themselves whether their state should be a slave or a free state?
Popular Sovereignty
What was settled in the Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854?
The principle of letting the people of a new state vote on whether it was to be a slave-state or a free state.
What state fought about whether to have slavery or be free before the Civil War?
Kansas
How did the question of whether to admit new states to the Union fuel the debate over slavery and state rights?
The slavery debate was mostly to do with the new states - whether they would be slave or free, the proportion of slave-states in Congress, and their influence on the voting.
What did Stephen Douglas think of slavery?
Stephen Douglas believed that the issue of slavery should be determined by popular sovereignty, allowing individual states and territories to decide for themselves whether to allow slavery. He supported the idea that each state should have the right to choose whether to be a free or slave state.
How did Stephen Douglas believe the issue of slavery could be resolved?
The solution was, to divide Clay's plan into a series of measures that Congress could vote on separately
A free what was closed to slavery?
It is a free STATE that is closed by slavery. You know..... like when there is a free state, there is NO slavery. Therefore, it is like slavery is closed, that is way it is called closed to slavery.
What did the kansas-nebraska act say about expansion and slavery?
The decision of whether to allow slavery or not in each state was left for the residents to decide.
Allowing each state to determine whether or not it wanted slavery was known as?
Popular Sovereignty
