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What was the law that allowed voters to choose whether to allow slavery?

The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 allowed voters in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether to allow slavery through popular sovereignty. This overturned the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which prohibited slavery in territories north of a certain latitude.


Believers in popular sovereignty proposed that the future of slavery in a territory should be decided by?

a territory's voters


What would decide weather slavery would be allowed in a territory idea of popular sovereignty?

By the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854, voters in the US territories would decide whether the "soon to be state" would enter as a free state or a slave state. This Act was the result of Senator Stephan Douglas's ideas to solve the slave-free state crisis.


What was the belief that voters should be given the right to decide if slavery would be permitted or banned?

popular sovereignty


Is where voters in a new territory decided if they wanted to ban or allow slavery?

The Dred Scott v. Sandford decision in 1857 established that territorial voters did not have the authority to ban or allow slavery; this decision held that Congress was the sole authority on the issue of slavery in the territories.


A proposed law or constitutional amendment the legislature ask voters to decide on?

In some states, an automatic ballot referrals allows voters to decide at regular intervals whether to hold a convention.


What were the main issues decided by the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

Whether to allow Slavery in the new states obtained in the Louisiana Territory and specifically in Kansas and Nebraska. The method used was to allow the voters of the states decide the slavery question as a step towards admission to the union. Nebraska was pretty much anti-slavery so the idea was OK there, but things were different in Kansas. The election produces a bloody battle and all sorts of conflicts and attempts to rig the election.


What allowed voters to decide issues?

Who allowed voters to decide issues


Did the north or the south say the right of slavery is the right of a state to decide?

Congressmen from the South were the first proponents of allowing the voters of a State decide the free or slavery issues. An amendment was bitterly passed however that when slaves reached the age of 25, they would be freed.


What was another name for letting voters decide for themselves whether their state should be a slave or a free state?

Popular Sovereignty


What was the compromise Douglas organized with the south?

The compromise let voters in the Nebraskan Territory to vote whether or not to be a slave state. This angered Northerners.


What territory is Kansas?

The territory of Kansas, to the West of Missouri, was admitted to the Union under a local vote that would decide whether it would be a slave-state or a free state. This system attracted every bully-boy from both sides, to cross into the state and intimidate voters. The ensuing period of violence was known as 'Bleeding Kansas'.