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popular sovereignty
Under popular sovereignty, decisions about slavery would be made by the settlers in a territory. There were different viewpoints about when the decision should be made; some felt the decision shouldn't be decided until a territory was approaching statehood, while others wanted it to be decided earlier.
freeport doctrine
that European nations would have to alert one another about any African territory they claimed.
the issue of slavery in the territories was to be decided through governmental bodies