SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
THE ELECTION OF 1860
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Question
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Stephen Douglass felt that the issue of slavery should be decided through ____
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an act of the US Congress
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each state’s congress
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popular sovereignty
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the Individual Freedom Act
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Popular sovereignty served as the core of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and Douglas believed that popular sovereignty was the best way to alleviate the crisis over slavery in the territories.
Detailed explanation-2: -He believed that only a state, through the voice of its inhabitants and their elected legislatures, had the right to decide to allow slavery within its borders. Out of this position grew Douglas’s idea of “popular sovereignty.”
Detailed explanation-3: -Why did Douglas believe that popular sovereignty would solve slavery in Nebraska Territory? He believed the people could vote for their own freedom of their slavery.
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