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He thought he could stop the Southern states from seceding, if he could get Congress to allow the people of each new state to vote on the slavery question.
It might have worked, if a lot of states were voting at the same time.
But when it was tried, only in Kansas, that thinly-populated territory became a magnet for terrorists from both sides to intimidate voters. The result was called 'Bleeding Kansas'.
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When did the Fifteenth Amendment pass giving African American men the right to vote?
February 3rd, 1870.
Why does congress use committees to evaluate proposed legislation?
because the committees help to pass the bill or return to committee for further changes.
What did upton sinclairs The Jungle expose?
The horrifying conditions of Chicago meatpacking industry. It caused the congress to pass the meat inspection act and the pure food and drug act.
What did President Grant help pass to prevent Southerners from using fear to shut African Americans out of the political process?
President Grant helped to pass The Enforcements Act to prevent Southerners from using fear to shut African Americans out of the political process.
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.
