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According to an article in Wikipedia, during the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Lincoln tried to get Douglas to announce whether he supported the way slavery was treated in his belief in popular sovereignty, as declared in the Kansas-Nebraska Act, or by the Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scott Case, in which a slave was declared personal property and could be taken anywhere in the US. Douglas indicated that

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Who wrote the freeport doctrine?

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What is the name of Stephen Douglas argument in the Stephen-Douglas debate?

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What was Stephen A Douglas's freeport doctrine?

Stephen Douglas' Freeport Doctrine referred to the proposal that territories had the right to refuse slavery if they chose. This was against a Supreme Court decision. The doctrine was espoused in his debates with Abraham Lincoln in 1858.


Douglas's stand that people could exclude slavery by refusing to pass laws protecting slaveholders' rights came to be known as?

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Who was a democrat who stated in the Freeport Doctrine that territories had a legal right to keep out slavery?

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How did the Freeport Doctrine affect the 1860 Presidential election?

The Freeport Doctrine affected the outcome of the election of 1860 in many ways. When it was initially created, many citizens liked it and agreed, but not the Southerners. They disagreed and did not like the Doctrine, which cost Douglas, the creator, his potential presidency.


What best defines the Freeport Doctrine?

The Freeport Doctrine was Stephen Douglas's answer to Lincoln's question, in which he explained that slavery could only exist where there was a slave code. If a state did not pass the necessary laws to protect slavery, then they could not have slavery exist there. He argued that a territory had the right to exclude slavery, despite the Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scott case.


Stephen A. Douglas?

Senator from Illinois who ran for president against Abraham Lincoln. Wrote the Kansas-Nebreaska Act and the Freeport Doctrine


When Stephen Douglas explained that slavery could be excluded from a territory if the officials did not pass laws to protect it his argument became known as the .?

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