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The concept of popular sovereignty was introduced by the 1854 Kansas Nebraska Act. The term did not apply to any particular law or concept that was related to slavery. The term was coined by Illinois Senator Stephen A. Douglas.
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The two territories that were organized under the compromise of 1850 with the choice of slavery left open to popular sovereignty?
Utah and New Mexico
What is it called when the people have the power to make decisions about government?
popular sovereignty
What power is exercised when state legislatures or national conventions vote for or against a constitution amendment?
popular sovereignty
A sentence using popular sovereignty?
Popular Sovereignty is a government in which the common people rule.
The notion that power lies with the people is called popular what?
popular sovereignty
Where did popular sovereignty originate from?
1850-1854
What does Douglas call the leading feature of the 1850 compromise?
He called it Popular Sovereignty
Was popular sovereignty before the mossouri compromise?
No. It was after the Compromise of 1850 was failing to hold.
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.
The South's main concession to the North in the Compromise of 1850 was?
acceptance of popular sovereignty in the New Mexico and Utah territories
Organized as territories under the compromise of 1850 with their decision about slavery left up to popular sovereignty?
Utah and New Mexico
Organized as territories under the compromise of 1850 with their decision on slavery left up to popular sovereignty?
Utah and New Mexico
The two territories that were organized under the compromise of 1850 with the choice of slavery left open to popular sovereignty?
Utah and New Mexico
What is it called when the people have the power to make decisions about government?
popular sovereignty
Admitted California as a free state opened SW territories to slavery by popular sovereignty and abolished slave trading in Washington?
Compromise of 1850
What power is exercised when state legislatures or national conventions vote for or against a constitution amendment?
popular sovereignty
Admitted California as a free state opened SW territories to slavery by popular sovereignty and abolished slave trading in Washington D.C.?
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
