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Stephen Douglas' Freeport Doctrine referred to the proposal that territories had the right to refuse slavery if they chose. This was against a Supreme Court decision. The doctrine was espoused in his debates with Abraham Lincoln in 1858.

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Basically Senator Douglas supported the Freeport Doctrine in that slavery could not exist or prosper in the territories without extensive legislation and certain economic conditions. With that said, Douglas did not foresee an expansion of slavery beyond where it was already established.

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What best defines the Freeport Doctrine?

The Freeport Doctrine was Stephen Douglas's answer to Lincoln's question, in which he explained that slavery could only exist where there was a slave code. If a state did not pass the necessary laws to protect slavery, then they could not have slavery exist there. He argued that a territory had the right to exclude slavery, despite the Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scott case.


Stephen A. Douglas?

Senator from Illinois who ran for president against Abraham Lincoln. Wrote the Kansas-Nebreaska Act and the Freeport Doctrine


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When Stephen Douglas explained that slavery could be excluded from a territory if the officials did not pass laws to protect it his argument became known as the .?

It was known as the Freeport Doctrine.


What did Douglass propose?

The Freeport Doctrine, which stated people of a territory could exclude slavery simply by declining t opass any of the special lawas that slave jurisdictions usually passed for their protection


Freeport Doctrine?

Doctrine developed by Stephen Douglas that said the exclusion of slavery in a territory could be determined by the refusal of the voters to enact any laws that would protect slave property. It was unpopular with Southerners, and thus cost him the election.


Did Douglas outlined his political views in the Freeport Doctrine?

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Douglas's stand that people could exclude slavery by refusing to pass laws protecting slaveholders' rights came to be known as?

It was known as the Freeport Doctrine.