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. . .
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'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
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