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GCSE History · key term
The principle that settlers in a territory should decide whether slavery would be permitted there.
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Paper 1
Revise: Key Events and Figures in the Lead-Up to WarThe Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 repealed the Missouri Compromise’s territorial restriction. It allowed settlers in Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether to permit slavery through popular sovereignty. Stephen Douglas supported this approach: instead of Congress imposing a territorial restriction, the inhabitants would decide.
Paper 3
Revise: Divisions and causesThe Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 allowed settlers in those territories to decide whether to permit slavery. This principle was called popular sovereignty. It effectively overturned the Missouri Compromise’s restriction on slavery and appeared to offer a democratic solution.
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