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Why did Frederick Douglass believe that popular sovereignty would solve the problem of slavery in the nebraska territory?
popular sovereignty allows for the people to choose where they stand on the subject and Frederick believed that the people would vote for no slavery
What is the practice of allowing each territory to decide for itself whether or not to allow slavery?
the sovereignty of each state, known as popular sovereignty
What gave residents of a territory the right to vote for or against slavery?
popular sovereignty
What 19th century politician is most closely associated with the idea of popular sovereignty?
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.
The concept that a territory should be allowed to decide whether to have slavery known as?
Popular sovereignty
Why did Frederick Douglass believe that popular sovereignty would solve the problem of slavery in the nebraska territory?
popular sovereignty allows for the people to choose where they stand on the subject and Frederick believed that the people would vote for no slavery
Why did popular sovereignty in fact lead to Bleeding Kansas instead of settling the issue of slavery in the Kansas-Nebraska territory?
Popular sovereignty allowed each territory to decide on the issue of slavery through a popular vote. This led to intense and violent conflicts like Bleeding Kansas because pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers flooded the territory to sway the vote in their favor, resulting in armed confrontations and confusion. The inability to peacefully settle the issue in Kansas-Nebraska demonstrated the limitations and flaws of popular sovereignty as a solution to the slavery debate.
What law in 1854 was devoted the principle of popular sovereignty?
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.
People living in a territory had the right to decide by voting if slavery be allowed?
Popular sovereignty is the principle that residents of a territory have the right to decide whether slavery should be permitted through a direct vote. It was a compromise proposed as part of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 to settle the debate over the extension of slavery into new territories.
Why did northerners head for Kansas after the signing of the Kansas- Nebraska act?
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.
What is the correct word for law allowing the people of Kanses and Nebraska to decide whether they would allow slavery in their territory?
The Missouri Compromise. Allowing the people to decide free or slave was Popular Sovereignty.
What term means to vote for or against slavery in a territory?
Popular sovereignty is the term that means people could determine, through voting themselves, where to allow slavery in a territory. Another term used is sovereignty of the people.
Which was an example of popular sovereignty the principle in the mid 1800s that allowed residents of each territory to decide whether they wanted to legalize slavery in their area?
Kansas - Nebraska act
Under popular sovereignty who decides whether slavery would be allowed in a territory?
Under popular sovereignty, the residents of the territory would ultimately decide whether slavery would be allowed. This principle meant that the people living in a particular territory would determine their own laws and institutions, including the decision on the legality of slavery.
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.
Believers in popular sovereignty proposed that the future of slavery in a territory should be decided by?
a territory's voters
What is the practice of allowing each territory to decide for itself whether or not to allow slavery?
the sovereignty of each state, known as popular sovereignty
