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∙ 11y agoLewis Cass is credited with introducing the idea of "popular sovereignty" as a way of compromising on the issue of slavery
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∙ 13y agoWebster
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∙ 11y agoPretty sure it was Lewis Cass
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∙ 13y agoLewis Cass
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∙ 11y agojean bodin
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Believers in popular sovereignty proposed that the future of slavery in a territory should be decided by?
a territory's voters
The Illinois senator who proposed the use of popular sovereignty in determining a state's slave status was?
Stephen Douglas
Who was the senator that proposed popular sovereignty as the solution to slaverys expansion?
Senator Lewis Cass of Michigan proposed one solution. Cass suggested that the citizens of each new territory should be allowed to decide for themselves if they wanted to permit slavery or not. This idea came to be called popular sovereignty.
What is it called when the people have the power to make decisions about government?
popular sovereignty
What power is exercised when state legislatures or national conventions vote for or against a constitution amendment?
popular sovereignty
Who was the senator that proposed popular sovereignty as the solution to slavery's expansion?
Lewis Cass
Who proposed bringing popular sovereignty to Kansas?
Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois.
Who was the senator that proposed popular sovereignty as the solution to slavery expansion?
Lewis Cass
Stephen A Douglas proposed letting the people decide about slavery through?
Popular Sovereignty
Stephen Douglas proposed letting the people decide about slavery through?
popular sovereignty
What act was proposed by Stephen Douglass and allowed popular sovereignty in the territories?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
Believers in popular sovereignty proposed that the future of slavery in a territory should be decided by?
a territory's voters
The Illinois senator who proposed the use of popular sovereignty in determining a state's slave status was?
Stephen Douglas
What Illinois senator proposed the use of popular sovereignty in determining a state's slave status?
Stephen Douglas
Who was the senator that proposed popular sovereignty as the solution to slaverys expansion?
Senator Lewis Cass of Michigan proposed one solution. Cass suggested that the citizens of each new territory should be allowed to decide for themselves if they wanted to permit slavery or not. This idea came to be called popular sovereignty.
Before the Civil War the principle of popular sovereignty was proposed as a means of?
deciding the legalization of slavery in a new state
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
