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People in Utah and New Mexico got to vote to decide if they wanted to be a slave or free state.
The Compromise of 1850 offered the Fugitive slave act to supporters of slavery. This meant that if a slave ran away he could be caught by his owner.
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 is the principle of the constitution in which people hace the supreme political power in government; also the practice of allowing each territory to decide for itself whether or not allowing slavery
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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.
People in Utah and New Mexico got to vote to decide if they wanted to be a slave or free state.
People in Utah and New Mexico got to vote to decide if they wanted to be a slave or free state.
The Missouri Compromise. Allowing the people to decide free or slave was Popular Sovereignty.
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.
Utah and New Mexico
The Compromise of 1850 allowed California to be admitted to the Union as a free state on September 9, 1850. The Utah Territory and the New Mexico Territory were formed by the Compromise of 1850 and these two territories could permit or prohibit slavery as a local option (popular sovereignty).
The areas in question were Utah and New Mexico.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Popular Sovereignty
The Kansas-Nebraska act tried to reach a compromise on slavery because it allowed the people to choose whether the state would be a slave state or a free state. They viewed this as better rather then assigning the states themselves.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide the issue of slavery by popular sovereignty. The people who lived in these territories would be able to vote on whether slavery would be allowed there. What effect did this have on Kansas?