" It became law after the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and was heavily promoted by Stephen Douglas.
In the election of 1848, Lewis Cass ran on the platform of enforcing this policy, whose critics replaced its first word with the word "squatter." Support for this policy was undermined by the violence of Border Ruffians, which caused the state that implemented this policy to be called "bleeding." It became law after the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and was heavily promoted by Stephen Douglas. For 10 points, name this pre-Civil War policy in which the settlers of a state determined whether it was slave or free.
In the election of 1848, Lewis Cass ran on the platform of enforcing this policy, whose critics replaced its first word with the word "squatter.
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