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Who was a senator who played a key role in development of the Compromise of 1850 and introduced the idea of popular sovereignty?
Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois played a key role in the development of the Compromise of 1850. He introduced the concept of popular sovereignty, which allowed the settlers of a territory to determine for themselves whether to allow slavery. Douglas believed this approach would help ease sectional tensions between the North and South. His efforts were instrumental in passing the compromise, although it ultimately failed to provide a lasting solution to the slavery issue in the United States.
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What Supreme Court decision overturned both the Missouri Compromise and popular sovereignty?
Dred Scott v. Sanford
What is it called when the people have the power to make decisions about government?
popular sovereignty
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 compromise did Stephen A. Douglas have to make to get the Kansas- Nebraska Act passed?
Allowing a local vote on the slavery question: 'Popular Sovereignty'
What was popular sovereignty in 1850?
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.
Was popular sovereignty before the mossouri compromise?
No. It was after the Compromise of 1850 was failing to hold.
Who intrudiced the idea of popular sovereignty and was a senator who played a key role in development of the compromise of 1850?
The idea of popular sovereignty was introduced by Senator Stephen A. Douglas. He played a pivotal role in the development of the Compromise of 1850, which aimed to address the contentious issue of slavery in the newly acquired territories following the Mexican-American War. Douglas advocated for allowing the residents of these territories to decide for themselves whether to permit slavery, a concept that significantly influenced the political landscape of the time.
Popular sovereignty and natural rights were introduced by?
john locke
Repealed the Missouri compromise by instituting popular sovereignty?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
What does Douglas call the leading feature of the 1850 compromise?
He called it Popular Sovereignty
Did the north like popular sovereignty?
No most northerners did not like popular sovereignty because it violated the Missouri compromise. The South was in favor of popular sovereignty because it allowed the people to decide if slavery would be allowed in a new territory.
Who was the speakers is a supporter of popular sovereignty?
Stephen A. Douglas suggested dropping the Missouri compromise's ban on slavery. Instead, popular sovereignty (the vote of the residents) would decide the issue.
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
What Supreme Court decision overturned both the Missouri Compromise and popular sovereignty?
Dred Scott v. Sanford
What supreme court decision overturned both Missouri compromise and popular sovereignty?
Dred Scott v. Sanford
What compromise was popular sovereignty?
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed in the United States in September of that year. The third bill, popular sovereignty, was developed by Lewis Cass and Douglas as the eventual Democratic Party position, letting each territory decide whether to allow slavery.
