Popular Sovereignty
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Kansas - Nebraska act
Senator Lewis Cass of Michigan proposed one solution. Cass suggested that the citizens of each new territory should be allowed to decide for themselves if they wanted to permit slavery or not. This idea came to be called popular sovereignty.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
The Act was meant to allow the people of each state to decide.
Douglas proposed that the people within each new territory should decide the slavery question for themselves without regard to the rest of the country, known as Popular Sovereignty.