Douglas changed his mind regarding the usefulness of the Missouri Compromise due to his belief in popular sovereignty, which allowed territories to decide for themselves whether to permit slavery. He saw the Missouri Compromise as a limitation on the expansion of democracy and the rights of settlers. Additionally, with the rise of sectional tensions and the desire to promote westward expansion, Douglas believed that a new approach was necessary to resolve conflicts between free and slave states. His support for the Kansas-Nebraska Act ultimately reflected this shift in perspective.
That Douglas didn't like that idea about the Missouri compromise
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Northerners protest Douglas's plan to repeal the Missouri Compromise because they wanted slavery to stop and the leaders of the south rejected the plan, they spit upon every plan to the compromise.
Northerners protest Douglas's plan to repeal the Missouri Compromise because they wanted slavery to stop and the leaders of the south rejected the plan, they spit upon every plan to the compromise.
Northerners protest Douglas's plan to repeal the Missouri Compromise because they wanted slavery to stop and the leaders of the south rejected the plan, they spit upon every plan to the compromise.
Cause he farted
Senator Stephen A. Douglas put forth the argument that if the Missouri Compromise of 1850 really was a compromise, it had to put forward a consistent principle. If it did not then it was not a compromise, but instead a modus vivendi arrangement. The main problem of this characterization is that Douglas was asking a rhetorical question. Douglas was the one to know inasmuch as he helped put it together.
The northerners protests DouglasÕs plan to repeal the Missouri Compromise because it would have made slavery legal in the northern territories. The Missouri Compromise had outlawed slavery in territories and new states above the Missouri Compromise line.
Douglas wanted to abandon the Missouri Compromise because he wanted to put in place his own Kansas- Nebraska Act. This act would expand railroads and allow territories to choose for themselves if they wanted to be free or slave states.
Senator Douglas thought that a local vote - or 'popular sovereignty' - would be a better way of deciding for or against slavery in the new States.
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