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Who would decide the issue of slavery in territories under the idea of popular sovereignty?
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The voting public in each territory that came up for statehood.
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Which of the following stated that the people in the territories could decide for themselves whether they wanted slavery?
Popular Sovereignty
What explains how popular sovereignty was related to slavery?
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.
Under this idea voters in a territory could decide whether or not to allow slavery in their state?
popular sovereignty
Who was the people that the compromise of 1850 allowed people to decide whether they wanted slavery?
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.
What states did the Compromise of 1850 allow the people to decide whether or not they wanted slavery?
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).
How popular sovereignty was related to slavery?
Settlers of some new territories were able to decide about slavery for themselves.
According t o popular sovereignty who would decide on the issue of slavery?
According to popular sovereignty, the people living in a particular territory or state would decide on the issue of slavery through a vote or election. This principle was used in the mid-19th century in the United States to determine whether new states entering the Union would allow or prohibit slavery.
What act led to popular sovereignty to decide the issue of slavery in the new territories?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Which of the following stated that the people in the territories could decide for themselves whether they wanted slavery?
Popular Sovereignty
What doctrine that allowed people living in the territories to decide the issue of slavery through their governmental bodies was?
The doctrine you are referring to is popular sovereignty. This idea, championed by Senator Stephen Douglas in the mid-19th century, proposed that residents of a territory should be able to determine whether slavery would be permitted in that territory through a vote or legislative action. This doctrine played a significant role in the lead-up to the American Civil War.
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?
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?
How did Louis Cass believe slavery should be decided in the territories?
As a believer in popular sovereignty, Louis Cass believed the populations of the territories would decide or themselves.
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 popular sovereignty and how did it affect territories becoming states?
Popular sovereignty was the right of the residents of these territories to vote themselves on the issue of slavery (in this case). In the Compromise of 1850, the territories of New Mexico and Utah were granted popular sovereignty to decide for themselves if slavery should be allowed or not in these areas.
What soverignty let residents decide the slavery issue?
Popular Sovereignty
What is the practice of allowing each territory to decide for itself whether or not to allow slavery?
the sovereignty of each state, known as popular sovereignty
How did the kansas nebraska changed The Missouri Compromise?
It changed the balance of power which had previously existed by allowing those territories popular sovereignty to decide whether to allow slavery or not for themselves.
