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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
They got to choose whether the territory would have slavery by the way of popular sovereignty, which is the people get to have the choice.