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Popular Sovereignty
what was the Admitted California as a free state opened SW territories to slavery by popular sovereignty and abolished slave trading in Washington dc? compromise of 1850
popular sovereignty
The voting public in each territory that came up for statehood.
Popular sovernty was related to slavery because before the civil war Stephen Douglas said that the states should have popular sovernty and what he meant was the states have a right to choose if they wanted to be a slave state or not. This nullified the Missouri compromise which said any state above Missouri would be a free state.
Settlers of some new territories were able to decide about slavery for themselves.
Popular Sovereignty
Stephen Douglas
New Mexico and Utah
The notion that people should be able to vote on the matter of slavery in the territories was called popular sovereignty. Popular sovereignty is a doctrine rooted in the belief that every human being is sovereign.
A popular vote by the residents of each territory.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Popular Sovereignty
Stephen Douglas
The Kansas-Nebraska of 1854 allowed the territories of Kansas and Nebrask to vote on whether to allow slavery, which is what "popular sovereignty" or "squatter sovereignty" meant.
popular sovereignty was an unworkable solution for the territories of Kansas and Nebraska
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?