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Why do you think the government did not allow slavery in the Northwest Territory?
Updated: 10/16/2024
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What did Stephen Douglas call letting settlers in a territory vote on whether to allow slavery?
popular sovereignty
What did Douglas call letting settlers in a territory vote on whether to allow slavery?
to see if they where able to stay on the territory or if they had to move away and go somewhere else.
What presidential candidate in 1860 wanted to avoid controversy over slavery?
Stephan A. Douglas , Democrat, was probably the most flexible on the slavery question. He proposed popular sovereignty -- letting the people of a state or territory decide by an election whether of not to allow slavery in their state.
Congress agreed to allow two states into the union one free and one slave and established slavery policies in the Louisiana Territory What was this agreement called?
The Missouri Compromise
What Government set up to help former slaves?
After the total abolition of slavery, a movement started to allow the return to Africa of recently freed slaves. To facilitate this, the country of Liberia was founded.
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