MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
COMPROMISE OF 1850
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Plan to free California
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Plan to allow each state to vote individually on the issue of slavery
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Plan to bring the Transcontinental Railroad to the US
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Plan to use the popular vote to elect the President
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Detailed explanation-1: -The concept of popular sovereignty as it pertains to the extension, during the antebellum, of slavery to territories was a political concept that permitting or prohibiting slavery for the residents of the territories themselves, rather than Congresses.
Detailed explanation-2: -Popular sovereignty means that the people are the ultimate source of the authority of their government. Popular sovereignty means that democratic government is BY THE PEOPLE AND FOR THE PEOPLE-for the benefit of the people, not for the benefit of those who govern in their name.
Detailed explanation-3: -The idea of popular sovereignty as it pertains to the extension of slavery to the territories in the antebellum era was a political concept that allowed the residents of the territories themselves, rather than Congress, to determine whether to permit or prohibit slavery.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1854, Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois, the chief proponent of popular sovereignty. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. Popular sovereignty in 19th century America emerged as a compromise strategy for determining whether a Western territory would permit or prohibit slavery.
Detailed explanation-5: -In 1854 Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois presented a bill destined to be one of the most consequential pieces of legislation in our national history.