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Douglas was generally against slavery but as a populist, he believed that the people of a state or territory should decide (popular sovereignty). He was a leading proponent of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which led to further violence on both sides of the issue.

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he actually did not he only supported the Kansas Nebraska Act to try to get a huge railroad circuit through Chicago to increase illnois's revnue

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Q: What was the belief of Stephen A. Douglas regarding slavery in the territories?
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