a territory's voters
Stephen Douglas
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.
popular sovereignty
popular sovereignty
Lewis Cass
Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois.
Lewis Cass
Popular Sovereignty
popular sovereignty
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
a territory's voters
Stephen Douglas
Stephen Douglas
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.
deciding the legalization of slavery in a new state
popular sovereignty