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Kansas-Nebraska Act: Territories
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Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois designed the Kansas-Nebraska Act and pushed it through Congress. He hoped the act would settle the divisive issue of extending slavery into the territories by removing it from national politics and leaving it for the individual states and territories to decide. Douglas ... believed that the Democratic Party could unify behind the banner of popular sovereignty—and that this would greatly aid his presidential aspirations.
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Popular sovereignty, what Stephen Douglas called "the great principle of self-government," was the main idea behind the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Whose voice was conspicuously absent in the decision over whether or not to permit slavery in the territories and why was this voice ignored?
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This is the first page of the Kansas Nebraska Act which eventually became law on May 30, 1854, establishing the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. This version was written on December 5th, 1853.
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