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Which of the following stated that the people in the territories could decide for themselves whether they wanted slavery?
Popular Sovereignty
Admitted California as a free state opened SW territories to slavery by popular sovereignty and abolished slave trading in Washington D.C.?
what was the Admitted California as a free state opened SW territories to slavery by popular sovereignty and abolished slave trading in Washington dc? compromise of 1850
Which of the following was not one of the proposed solutions to slavery in the territories that dominated the debate from the late 1840s until 1861?
popular sovereignty
Who would decide the issue of slavery in territories under the idea of popular sovereignty?
The voting public in each territory that came up for statehood.
What explains how popular sovereignty was related to slavery?
Popular sovernty was related to slavery because before the civil war Stephen Douglas said that the states should have popular sovernty and what he meant was the states have a right to choose if they wanted to be a slave state or not. This nullified the Missouri compromise which said any state above Missouri would be a free state.
How popular sovereignty was related to slavery?
Settlers of some new territories were able to decide about slavery for themselves.
What is the term for allowing people within the territories to decided on issues such as slavery?
Popular Sovereignty
Whose theory of popular sovereignty reopened the issue of slavery in the territories?
Stephen Douglas
What does popular sovereignty mean in regards to the spread of slavery into territories?
Popular sovereignty is the idea that the residents of a territory should have the right to decide for themselves whether to allow slavery. This concept was influential in the debate over the spread of slavery into new territories during the mid-19th century in the United States, particularly with the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854 which allowed for popular sovereignty in those territories.
Which territories were able to choose by popular sovereignty whether or not to allow slavery?
New Mexico and Utah
What was the notion that people should be able to vote on the matter of slavery in the territories called?
The notion that people should be able to vote on the matter of slavery in the territories was called popular sovereignty. Popular sovereignty is a doctrine rooted in the belief that every human being is sovereign.
The proposal for popular sovereignty called for deciding the issue of slavery in the territories through?
A popular vote by the residents of each territory.
What act led to popular sovereignty to decide the issue of slavery in the new territories?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Who was the senator from Illinois who believed that the question of slavery in the territories should be settled by popular sovereignty?
Stephen Douglas
Which of the following stated that the people in the territories could decide for themselves whether they wanted slavery?
Popular Sovereignty
What bill passed by congress which included the principle of popular sovereignty?
The Kansas-Nebraska of 1854 allowed the territories of Kansas and Nebrask to vote on whether to allow slavery, which is what "popular sovereignty" or "squatter sovereignty" meant.
What was the result of Bleeding Kansas?
popular sovereignty was an unworkable solution for the territories of Kansas and Nebraska
