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Q: Whose theory of popular sovereignty reopened the issue of slavery in the territories?
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How popular sovereignty was related to slavery?

Settlers of some new territories were able to decide about slavery for themselves.


What is the term for allowing people within the territories to decided on issues such as slavery?

Popular Sovereignty


Which territories were able to choose by popular sovereignty whether or not to allow slavery?

New Mexico and Utah


What was the notion that people should be able to vote on the matter of slavery in the territories called?

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.


Which law reopened arguments over the spread of slavery into territories of the Louisiana Purchase?

The Kansas Nebraska Act reopened argument over the spread of slavery into territories of the Louisiana Purchase.


The proposal for popular sovereignty called for deciding the issue of slavery in the territories through?

A popular vote by the residents of each territory.


What act led to popular sovereignty to decide the issue of slavery in the new territories?

The Kansas-Nebraska Act.


Which of the following stated that the people in the territories could decide for themselves whether they wanted slavery?

Popular Sovereignty


Who was the senator from Illinois who believed that the question of slavery in the territories should be settled by popular sovereignty?

Stephen Douglas


What bill passed by congress which included the principle of popular sovereignty?

The Kansas-Nebraska of 1854 allowed the territories of Kansas and Nebrask to vote on whether to allow slavery, which is what "popular sovereignty" or "squatter sovereignty" meant.


The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide the issue of slavery by popular sovereignty. The people who lived in these territories would be able to vote on whether?

The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide the issue of slavery by popular sovereignty. The people who lived in these territories would be able to vote on whether slavery would be allowed there. What effect did this have on Kansas?


Admitted California as a free state opened SW territories to slavery by popular sovereignty and abolished slave trading in Washington D.C.?

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