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Why was the principle of popular sovereignty proposed before the US Civil War?
The concept of the famed US Senator of Illinois, Stephan A. Douglas believed that the citizens of a territory should be the force that decided whether, before applying for statehood, they would vote to determine whether the state would be a free state or one that permitted slavery.In the truest spirit of allowing citizens and not the Federal government to make such decisions, on paper, he was correct. And, it must be understood that slavery, as horrible as it was, had been part of the US and pre-US since Jamestown in 1620. The British, controlling colonial America up until 1776, over 100 years never sought o abolish it. And three years after "popular sovereignty" in 1857, the Supreme Court made the error of calling slavery legal and to make matters worse, said that Black people could never be US Citizens. In 1854, when the Kansas-Nebraska Act enacted popular sovereignty, it was not done to prevent a civil war. It was always assumed that the issue of slavery would not come to the point of a horrible civil war.
Before the Civil War who did the South think would assist them?
Before the Civil War, the South thought that European countries that needed cotton would assist them.
What is the most popular sport before the civil war?
horse shoes
What did most American homes have at the end of the twentieth century that they did not have before 1945?
Most American homes had televisions at the end of the twentieth century. They did not have televisions in homes before 1945. Telephones also became more popular around the same time.
What wars did Benedict Arnold fight in?
The French and Indian War, the American Revolution.
