Popular Sovereignty
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.
popular sovereignty
Popular sovereignty
Popular Sovereignty
The senete
Popular sovereignty was well supported because it allowed the local citizens of a territory to decide if slavery was to be allowed or illegal. Stephen A. Douglas pushed for popular sovereignty during the 1840's.
it divided the remainder of the Louisiana purchase into two territories and allowed people in each territory to decide on the question of slavery
1.the senate 2.the president 3.the resident of the territory 4.the house of representatives
Because it repealed the Missouri Compromise
Kansas - Nebraska act
Answer this question… The citizens of a country should be allowed to decide how that country is governed.
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