SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
THE ELECTION OF 1860
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southern democrat
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northern democrat
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republican
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constitutional union
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the modern period the concept of popular sovereignty has been adopted by the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau according to whom, people willingly gave legitimate authority to the government in the form of social contract for reciprocated preservation.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -It was first applied in organizing the Utah and New Mexico territories in 1850. Its most crucial application came with the passage of U.S. Sen. Stephen A. Douglas’s Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which repealed the prohibition of slavery north of latitude 36°30′ (established in the Missouri Compromise of 1820).