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What was the result of Bleeding Kansas?
popular sovereignty was an unworkable solution for the territories of Kansas and Nebraska
What bill passed by congress which included the principle of popular sovereignty?
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.
When was popular sovereignty?
Popular sovereignty was used before the Civil War to determine if the state wanted slavery or not. Nebraska and Kansas voted on these issues.
What right did states get through the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
popular sovereignty
What did the situation in Kansas in the mid 1850s indicate the impracticality of?
Popular Sovereignty
What is a good sentence for Kansas Nebraska act?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 called for "popular sovereignty."
What is the name of the legislation during Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?
Popular Sovereignty
What was the law that established popular sovereignty in new territories?
Kansas- Nebraska Act
Who proposed bringing popular sovereignty to Kansas?
Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois.
Repealed the Missouri compromise by instituting popular sovereignty?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
What was meant by popular sovereignty?
Popular sovereignty is when a majority vote within a region or state determines its policies. The Kansas-Nebraska act of 1854 allowed popular sovereignty to decide whether a territory was to be a free state or a slave state.
In the compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 popular sovereignty was proposed as a way to?
'Popular Sovereignty' was the term coined by Stephen Douglas for a local vote on slavery in each new state as it joined the Union. It was the basis of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which was first tested - disastrously - when Kansas was admitted as free soil. This followed the unsuccessful Compromise of 1850, which did not involve Popular Sovereignty.
