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Senator Stephen Douglas helped draft the bills of the Compromise of 1850. His position, which was basically the whole of the compromise, set the northern boundary for slavery at 36°30', created harsher fugitive slave laws and introduced the concept of popular sovereignty for several territories such as Kansas, Utah and New Mexico, wherein the legal residents of those particular territories would determine by voting, whether or not to permit slavery within their borders. This law led directly to the civil conflict known as 'Bleeding Kansas' which pitted pro-slavery settlers against free-soil settlers of that territory.
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What main policy was supported by the nativism?
Know-Nothings
Nativism was the main policy supported by the?
Know-Nothings.
What decision promoted by Stephen Douglas made popular sovereignty a national policy for dealing with slavery?
Illinois Senator Stephen A. Douglas was a leading Democrat in the US. He sought to solve the slavery issue by having the citizens of a US Territory, vote on the slavery issue. Then when the Territory applied for statehood, the slavery issue would have already been decided.This was a sane measure, however, there was a lack of law and order in Kansas at the time of 1854. The result was chaos and murder in Kansas.
Controversy over which issue led to the missori compromise 1820?
The Compromise of 1850 was an intricate package of five bills, passed in September 1850, defusing a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North that arose following the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). The compromise, drafted by Whig Henry Clay and brokered by Democrat Stephen Douglas, avoided secession or civil war at the time and reduced sectional conflict for four years.The Compromise was greeted with relief, although each side disliked specific provisions. Texas surrendered its claim to New Mexico but received debt relief and the Texas Panhandle, and retained the control over El Paso that it had established earlier in 1850. California was permitted to be admitted to the Union as a free state, instead of being split at the Missouri Compromise Line. In addition, the South avoided the [1] Wilmot Proviso. As compensation, the South received the possibility of slave states, an issue to be determined by popular sovereignty in the new New Mexico Territory and Utah Territory (these lands were generally unsuited to plantation agriculture and were populated by non-Southerners); a stronger Fugitive Slave Act, which in practice outraged Northern public opinion; and preservation of slavery in the national capital, although the slave trade was banned there except in the portion of the District of Columbia that rejoined Virginia.The Compromise became possible after the sudden death of President Zachary Taylor, who, although a slaveowner, had tried to implement the Northern policy of excluding slavery from the Southwest. Whig leader Henry Clay designed a compromise, which failed to pass in early 1850. In the next session of Congress, Democratic Senator Stephen Douglas (Illinois) narrowly passed a slightly modified package over opposition by extremists on both sides, including Senator John C. Calhoun of South Carolina.
What was the name given to Southern whites who supported the Republican policy throughout Reconstruction?
Some Southern whites saw an advantage in supporting the Republicans and the Reconstruction. They were referred to as scalawags.
What was Senator Stephen A Douglas' long term hope for his policy of popular sovereignty?
Illinois Senator Stephen A. Douglas intended to use his policy of popular sovereignty as a mechanism to persuade the South to accept what he believed was the ultimate outcome for slavery in the Territories. Douglas was positive that slavery would never be voted for in the frontiers. By offering the people a choice, the Southern slave holders could not claim that they were treated unfairly. Or, that any political party was denying the Southern interests to be a policy against them. Douglas was correct in this matter and although Kansas became a bloody civil war, white farmers had no interest in bringing the slavery institution out of the South and into the US frontiers.
Why did Abraham Lincoln challenge Stephen Douglas to debate in the elecion of 1858?
Neither Lincoln nor Douglas supported slavery. The difference was that Lincoln and the Republican Party was dedicated to have slavery in the US abolished. Douglas believed that the people in each state should decide the slavery issue. His policy was called popular sovereignty.
What effect did the Dred Scott decision have on Senator Stephen A Douglas' political situation?
The Dred Scott decision by the US Supreme Court in 1857 damaged Senator Douglas' main political position on slavery. It virtually vetoed his policy of popular sovereignty.
What was Stephen A. Douglas and view on slavery.?
Stephen A. Douglas was a prominent Democratic politician in the 19th century who had a popular sovereignty approach to the issue of slavery. He believed that each territory should decide for itself whether to allow slavery, as opposed to having a national policy on the matter. This stance was a key aspect of the debates leading up to the Civil War.
What has the author Douglas Wass written?
Douglas Wass has written: 'What sort of industrial policy?'
How does a democracy serve the varied needs of its citizens when forming public policy?
through compromise.
Trickle down economics was an economic policy supported by?
Trickle down economics was an economic policy supported by Ronald Reagan.
Would you have supported the policy of containment whywhy not?
no
What has the author Stephen Pratten written?
Stephen Pratten has written: 'Competitiveness policy and economic organisation'
What has the author Douglas A Decker written?
Douglas A. Decker has written: 'Policy evolution' -- subject(s): Congresses, Energy policy, United States, Energy conservation, Energy consumption
Which is not major feature of public policy?
supported by business.
What main policy was supported by the nativism?
Know-Nothings
