'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.
Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois.
The Democratic senator from Illinois, Stephen Douglas is most associated with the idea of popular sovereignty. His Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854 allowed citizens in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to vote on the slavery issue before the territory applied for statehood.
popular sovereignty was an unworkable solution for the territories of Kansas and Nebraska
Stephen A. Douglas was an American politician from Illinois and the designed of the Nebraska-Kansas Act. The act wanted to create a sovereign nation that allowed male white settlers whether they would allow slavery in those nations.Ê
Stephen A. Douglas was an American politician from Illinois and the designed of the Nebraska-Kansas Act. The act wanted to create a sovereign nation that allowed male white settlers whether they would allow slavery in those nations.Ê
The concept of popular sovereignty was introduced by the 1854 Kansas Nebraska Act. The term did not apply to any particular law or concept that was related to slavery. The term was coined by Illinois Senator Stephen A. Douglas.
Senator Stephen A. Douglas believed that the only way to democratically deal with the issue of slavery was by voting. This was called popular sovereignty and applied to his Kansas- Nebraska Act of 1854.
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.
The concept of popular sovereignty was on its surface the most democratic method to decide whether a state would be a free state or a slave state. The unforeseen consequences of this was the armed conflict in Kansas between pro and anti-slavery people. This should have been avoided however, by having a strong presence in Kansas by the US military.
the construction of a transcontinental railroad that would start in Chicago, Illinois
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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