It shouldn't be in this category, I think. Well what i learned, it really fired up the slavery dispute more, you know, North (anti-slavery) against the South (pro-slavery). This incrase of dispute...
It was brought in by the popular and sociable Stephen Douglas, to allow the people of each new state to vote on whether to be slave or free.He made a good case for this, but the reality turned out...
Local voting on the slavery issue when new states were admitted to the USA. It was a hopeful attempt by Stephen Douglas to resolve the issue by democratic means, and he called it Popular Sovereignty....