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'Popular Sovereignty' was the term coined by Stephen Douglas for a local vote on slavery in each new state as it joined the Union.

It was the basis of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which was first tested - disastrously - when Kansas was admitted as free soil.

This followed the unsuccessful Compromise of 1850, which did not involve Popular Sovereignty.

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Was popular sovereignty before the mossouri compromise?

No. It was after the Compromise of 1850 was failing to hold.


He proposed the idea of popular sovereignty for the us territories?

The person that proposed the idea was Senator StephenA. Douglas. He wanted to abandon the MKissouri Compromise and let the settlers in each territory vote on whether to allow slavery.


Repealed the Missouri compromise by instituting popular sovereignty?

Kansas-Nebraska Act


What does Douglas call the leading feature of the 1850 compromise?

He called it Popular Sovereignty


Who was the senator that proposed popular sovereignty as the solution to slavery's expansion?

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Who was the senator that proposed popular sovereignty as the solution to slavery expansion?

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Who proposed bringing popular sovereignty to Kansas?

Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois.


Did the north like popular sovereignty?

No most northerners did not like popular sovereignty because it violated the Missouri compromise. The South was in favor of popular sovereignty because it allowed the people to decide if slavery would be allowed in a new territory.


Stephen A Douglas proposed letting the people decide about slavery through?

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Stephen Douglas proposed letting the people decide about slavery through?

popular sovereignty


Who was the speakers is a supporter of popular sovereignty?

Stephen A. Douglas suggested dropping the Missouri compromise's ban on slavery. Instead, popular sovereignty (the vote of the residents) would decide the issue.


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.