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People in Utah and New Mexico got to vote to decide if they wanted to be a slave or free state.
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Which decision voided the Missouri Compromise and let territories decide on the issue of slavery themselves instead of letting Congress do so?
compromise of 1850
Who was allowed to decide if slavery was allowed during the kansas-nebraska act of 1854?
The Act was meant to allow the people of each state to decide.
Which was an example of popular sovereignty the principle in the mid 1800s that allowed residents of each territory to decide whether they wanted to legalize slavery in their area?
Kansas - Nebraska act
What was an example of popular sovereignty principle in the mid-1800s that allowed residents of each territory to decide whether they wanted to legalize slavery in their area?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
What idea was that Citizens of each new territory should be allowed to decide if they wanted to permit slavery?
Popular Sovereignty
Where the compromise of 1850 allowed people to decide whether they wanted slavery?
No. It was a compromise in the Congress to work out problems between some states as to which side they were on. People could not decide on their own to own slaves. Some people in the South didn't want slavery.
The compromise of 1850 allowed people in blank to decide whether they wanted slavery?
People in Utah and New Mexico got to vote to decide if they wanted to be a slave or free state.
Who was the people that the compromise of 1850 allowed people to decide whether they wanted slavery?
The Compromise of 1850 did not allow any choice in the matter. It reflected the increasing difficulty of creating new slave-states. It was the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 that allowed the people of those two territories to vote on the slavery question. The only time it was tried (in Kansas), it led to terrible bloodshed, and was not tried again. The result was that Kansas rejected slavery.
The forced Congress to decide if slavery would be allowed in regions west of the Mississippi.?
Missouri compromise
What was the law that allowed voters to choose whether to allow slavery?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 allowed voters in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether to allow slavery through popular sovereignty. This overturned the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which prohibited slavery in territories north of a certain latitude.
How did the kansas nebraska changed The Missouri Compromise?
It changed the balance of power which had previously existed by allowing those territories popular sovereignty to decide whether to allow slavery or not for themselves.
Forced congress to decide if slavery would be allowed in regions west of the mississippi?
missouri compromise
The compromise of 1850 allowed people in where to decide weather they wanted slavery?
Utah and New Mexico
What allowed people in new states to decide if they would allow slavery or not?
Popular sovereignty-_-Apex
What factor was used to decide whether or not an area could be open to slavery according to the Missouri compromise?
The factor used to decide whether an area could be open to slavery under the Missouri Compromise was its geographical location. This compromise established a line at latitude 36°30' where slavery would be permitted south of the line and prohibited north of it, with the exception of Missouri.
The concept that a territory should be allowed to decide whether to have slavery known as?
Popular sovereignty
What states did the Compromise of 1850 allow the people to decide whether or not they wanted slavery?
The Compromise of 1850 allowed California to be admitted to the Union as a free state on September 9, 1850. The Utah Territory and the New Mexico Territory were formed by the Compromise of 1850 and these two territories could permit or prohibit slavery as a local option (popular sovereignty).
