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It seemed like a reasonable solution to the slavery debate - let the people of each new state vote on whether it would be slave or free.
The flaw in the argument was that the states would be voting one at a time. So every bully-boy in America, from both sides, would descend on one thinly-populated area to commit maximum mayhem.
When it was tried-out, in Kansas, the result was called 'Bleeding Kansas'.
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TaigaTo allow the people of each US territory to vote whether a territory reaching statehood would be a free or slave state.
It sounded reasonable enough, but it backfired badly the first time it was tried, in thinly-populated Kansas, where people from outside the state came in and bought cheap properties so that they could vote.
There was much violence and intimidation from bully-boys on both sides, and they called it 'Bleeding Kansas'.
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