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Kansas - Nebraska act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
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.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act, promoted by Stephen Douglass.
Allowing a local vote on the slavery question: 'Popular Sovereignty'
They got to choose whether the territory would have slavery by the way of popular sovereignty, which is the people get to have the choice.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 called for the citizens of a territory to vote on the issue of slavery before they applied for statehood. The idea was termed popular sovereignty.
a violent clash between pro-slavery and antislavery forces
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 used before the Civil War to determine if the state wanted slavery or not. Nebraska and Kansas voted on these issues.
Kansas - Nebraska act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
The Democratic senator from Illinois, Stephen Douglas is most associated with the idea of popular sovereignty. His Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854 allowed citizens in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to vote on the slavery issue before the territory applied for statehood.
They thought that granting popular sovereignty would allow slavery
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Yes. Those were Kansas and Nebraska. After a little local difficulty, Kansas voted against slavery. They didn't bother trying the same thing with Nebraska, which was declared a state in 1867, after slavery had been made illegal.