The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850, specifically the provision that prohibited slavery in territories north of the 36°30’ parallel. Instead, the Act allowed for the potential expansion of slavery into those territories based on popular sovereignty.
Kansas Nebraska Act
Stephen Douglas
The notion that people should be able to vote on the matter of slavery in the territories was called popular sovereignty. Popular sovereignty is a doctrine rooted in the belief that every human being is sovereign.
One Stephen Douglas was the original advocate of Popular Sovereignty. He was tasked with organizing the new territories in terms of their popularity.
Utah and New Mexico
Utah and New Mexico
acceptance of popular sovereignty in the New Mexico and Utah territories
popular sovereignty was an unworkable solution for the territories of Kansas and Nebraska
Slave ownership in territories could be decided by popular sovereignty
kansas and nebraska
Compromise of 1850
Popular sovereignty was the right of the residents of these territories to vote themselves on the issue of slavery (in this case). In the Compromise of 1850, the territories of New Mexico and Utah were granted popular sovereignty to decide for themselves if slavery should be allowed or not in these areas.
what was the Admitted California as a free state opened SW territories to slavery by popular sovereignty and abolished slave trading in Washington dc? compromise of 1850
No. It was after the Compromise of 1850 was failing to hold.
Henry Clay
Douglas wanted to abandon the Missouri Compromise because he wanted to put in place his own Kansas- Nebraska Act. This act would expand railroads and allow territories to choose for themselves if they wanted to be free or slave states.