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Believers in popular sovereignty proposed that the future of slavery in a territory should be decided by?
a territory's voters
What did Stephen Douglas call letting settlers in a territory vote on whether to allow slavery?
popular sovereignty
The doctrine that the issue of slavery should be decided by the residents of a territory themselves not by the federal government?
popular sovereignty
What did Douglas call letting settlers in a territory vote on whether to allow slavery?
to see if they where able to stay on the territory or if they had to move away and go somewhere else.
How would decisions about slavery be made under popular sovereignty?
Under popular sovereignty, decisions about slavery would be made by the settlers in a territory. There were different viewpoints about when the decision should be made; some felt the decision shouldn't be decided until a territory was approaching statehood, while others wanted it to be decided earlier.
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