what allowed the people of the territory to decide the question of slavery for themselves.
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Kansas Nebraska Act The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´.
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- That part of the compromise effectively stopped slavery from spreading into the rest of the Louisiana Purchase. The Missouri Compromise, as the first great Congressional compromise over the slavery issue, was also important as it set a precedent that Congress could regulate slavery in new territories and states. And that very issue would become a very important topic for debate decades later, especially in the 1850s.
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- Highlights. 1  In 1854, Senator Stephen Douglas introduced a bill before Congress for the organization of Kansas and Nebraska (Kansas-Nebraska Act). 2  In addition, the issue of slavery in the territories would be decided by popular sovereignty instead of by the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
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- Description: A map of the United States at the time of the Kansas–Nebraska Act (1854) which allowed settlers to determine whether or not slavery would be allowed in their territories.
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Lincoln speaks out against slavery It was believed that the act would set a precedent for determining the legality of slavery in other new territories. Controversy over the act influenced political races across the country that fall. Abolitionists, like Lincoln, hoped to convince lawmakers in the new territories to reject slavery. Lincoln, who was practicing law at the time, campaigned on behalf of abolitionist Republicans in Illinois and attacked the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
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- The Kansas-Nebrask Act was an 1854 bill that mandated “popular sovereignty”–allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state’s borders.
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- At the very time when slavery was reaching its natural and impassable frontiers in Texas, there arose the fateful excitement over the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, or rather over the clause which abrogated the Missouri Compromise and left the determination of the status of slavery in the two territories to their own settlers.
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How Did the Issue of Slavery Affect the Debate Over the War With Mexico? After America was victorious in the war, Mexico was forced to cede California to the United States, and what are now the states of New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Arizona and parts of Wyoming and Colorado. However American political parties were divided in the debate about whether to allow slavery in these new territories.
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- Indeed, the debate over slave and free states remained relatively calm for almost 30 years. However by the late 1840s, several events occurred that upset the balance: the U.S. added new territory as a result of the Mexican war, and the question of whether that territory would be slave or free arose again.t the same time, Texas laid claim to territory extending all the way to Santa Fe. Of course Washington, D.C., the nation s capital, not only allowed slavery but was home to the largest slave market in North America.
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Effects and Significance Slavery was not restricted in the territories of Utah and New Mexico. The Compromise of 1850 also allowed the United States to expand its territory by accepting California as a state. A territory rich in gold, agricultural products and other natural resources would create wealth and enrich the country as a whole.
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How did popular sovereignty lead to violence in Kansas? Why did popular sovereignty lead to Bleeding Kansas instead of settling the issue os slavery in the nebraska territory? If you allow one state at a time to vote on the slavery issue, that one (thinly-populated) state is going to be a magnet for every terrorist from both sides to invade the area … to intimidate voters.
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31a. The Kansas-Nebraska Act The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed each territory to decide the issue of slavery on the basis of popular sovereignty. Kansas with slavery would violate the Missouri Compromise, which had kept the Union from falling apart for the last thirty-four years.he Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed each territory to decide the issue of slavery on the basis of popular sovereignty. Kansas with slavery would violate the Missouri Compromise, which had kept the Union from falling apart for the last thirty-four years.
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed for new territories to decide if they were a free or slave state by popular sovereignty. The Kansas-Nebraska Act undid the compromise that was made in the Missouri Compromise, which designated a line of latitude to be the separation of free and slave states. The Kansas-Nebraska act reignited the disagreement between pro and anti slavery factions.
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MexicanâAmerican War This territory would ultimately yield four states (California, Nevada, Texas, Utah) and parts of four others (Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming). The impact that new territory would have on the slavery question was anticipated during the war. In 1846, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Wilmot Proviso, banning slavery in newly acquired territories; the Senate refused to take up this bill at that time or in subsequent sessions of Congress.
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5 Things You May Not Know About Lincoln, Slavery and Emancipation Lincoln thought colonization could resolve the issue of slavery. For much of his career, Lincoln believed that colonization—or the idea that a majority of the African-American population should leave the United States and settle in Africa or Central America—was the best way to confront the problem of slavery.
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American Foreign Policy As part of the Compromise of 1850, the territories of New Mexico and Utah were organized without mention of slavery.s part of the Compromise of 1850, the territories of New Mexico and Utah were organized without mention of slavery.
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Missouri Compromise Missouri Compromise. Missouri Compromise, 1820–21, measures passed by the U.S. Congress to end the first of a series of crises concerning the extension of slavery.By 1818, Missouri Territory had gained sufficient population to warrant its admission into the Union as a state.o a statehood bill brought before the House of Representatives, James Tallmadge of New York proposed an amendment that would forbid importation of slaves and would bring about the ultimate emancipation of all slaves born in Missouri. This amendment passed the House (Feb., 1819), but not the Senate.
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- Since 'popular  sovereignty' would decide whether Kansas would be admitted to the  Union as a slave-holding state or otherwise, passionate advocates  of these positions set about trying to influence other Kansas  residents to support one or the other.
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Slavery in the Northwest Territory Slavery in the Northwest Territory. As the Continental Congress discussed the Northwest Ordinance, a Massachusetts delegate suggested adding a provision banning slavery in the Northwest Territory, which included the future states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan. The Ordinance, including this measure, was adopted on July 13, 1787.
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Attempts to Resolve Sectionalism southerners did not want to add another free state to the Union; Stephen Douglas proposed that the Nebraska Territory that the Nebraska Territory be divided into two territories, Kansas and Nebraska; the settlers in the state would be able to decide the issue of slavery by popular sovereignty; seemed like a solution to the problem of slavery but, in fact, repealed the Missouri Compromise and heightened the controversy over the institution
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APUSH Ch.18 Popular Sovereignty. The doctrine that stated that the people of a territory had the right to decide their own laws by voting. In the Kansas-Nebraska Act, this would decide whether a territory allowed slavery.
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Chapter 17 When the war began, each side was convinced that its cause was just. Southerners believed that they had the right to leave the Union. In fact, they called the conflict the War for Southern Independence. Southerners wanted independence so that they could keep their traditional way of life—including the institution of slavery.
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Attempts to Resolve Sectionalism A slave from Missouri moved to a free territory with his owner; after they returned to Missouri, the owner died; with the help of lawyers, the slave argued that he was a free man because he lived in a free territory and filed a lawsuit; US Supreme Court justices, their decision was justified in three ways: 1) Scott was not considered a US citizen, 2) Constitution protects citizen's rights to property, which could be slaves, who could be taken anywhere 3) US did no have the right to outlaw ...
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- Before the Civil War, the southern states had regularly voted against homestead legislation because they correctly foresaw that the law would hasten the settlement of western territory, ultimately adding to the number and political influence of the free states.
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- Stephen Douglas probably proposed such a plan mentioned above because of the concept of popular sovereignty where the people who reside in a territory that might become a stat…e at a later date could decide for themselves whether they wanted slavery or not.