A. offered an effective solution to the problem of slavery
B. was an invitation to civil war.
C. was wholeheartedly accepted by the South
D. was a solution supported by both the North and the South
E. was not so popular after all.
Any of those 3 seems like a arguable answer. . .
'Popular Sovereignty' was the term coined by Stephen Douglas for a local vote on slavery in each new state as it joined the Union. It was the basis of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which was first tested - disastrously - when Kansas was admitted as free soil. This followed the unsuccessful Compromise of 1850, which did not involve Popular Sovereignty.
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It upheld popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska
popular sovereignty was an unworkable solution for the territories of Kansas and Nebraska
The Kansas-Nebraska of 1854 allowed the territories of Kansas and Nebrask to vote on whether to allow slavery, which is what "popular sovereignty" or "squatter sovereignty" meant.
Popular sovereignty was used before the Civil War to determine if the state wanted slavery or not. Nebraska and Kansas voted on these issues.
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 called for "popular sovereignty."
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Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois.
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Popular sovereignty is when a majority vote within a region or state determines its policies. The Kansas-Nebraska act of 1854 allowed popular sovereignty to decide whether a territory was to be a free state or a slave state.
'Popular Sovereignty' was the term coined by Stephen Douglas for a local vote on slavery in each new state as it joined the Union. It was the basis of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which was first tested - disastrously - when Kansas was admitted as free soil. This followed the unsuccessful Compromise of 1850, which did not involve Popular Sovereignty.