What law, which based the decision of slavery on popular sovereignty (the people decide through majority vote) within the territory, heightened tensions between slavery supporters and abolitionists because they hurried west to settle to gain control of the territory that ultimately resulted in fighting (showed the failure of popular sovereignty). this was the?

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Leyla Garza

10 April, 04:24

What law, which based the decision of slavery on popular sovereignty (the people decide through majority vote) within the territory, heightened tensions between slavery supporters and abolitionists because they hurried west to settle to gain control of the territory that ultimately resulted in fighting (showed the failure of popular sovereignty). this was the?

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Shyla Chambers · Answer 1

The answer is Kansas-Nebraska Act. The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U. S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It permitted individuals in the regions of Kansas and Nebraska to choose for themselves regardless of whether to permit servitude inside their fringes. The Act served to annul the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which denied subjection north of scope 36°30'.