MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
COMPROMISE OF 1850
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Question
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Stephen Douglas introduced a new plan to expand railroads further west. The most controversial part of his plan involved ____
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creating the Kansas and Nebraska territories
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connecting the nation with railroads
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encouraging farmers to settle on new lands
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allowing new states to vote on being free or slave
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Stephen A Douglas’s plans for deciding the slavery question in the Kansas-Nebraska scheme required repeal of the Missouri Compromise.
Detailed explanation-2: -Douglas’s Compromise of 1850 allowed two territories, Utah and New Mexico (both were territories formed out of the Mexican Cession of 1848) to decide whether to allow slavery within their borders at the time of their entry into the Union.
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