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Stephen A. Douglas's plans for deciding the slavery question in the Kansas-Nebraska scheme repeal of the

Missouri compromise

During the 1950s, slaves probably gained their freedom most frequently by

Self-purchase it voluntary emancipation

The most alarming aspect of the Compromise of 1850 to northerners was the decision concerning

The revised, most stringent and coercive Fugitive slave law

According to the principle of popular sovereignty, the question of slavery in the territories would be determined by

The self-determination of people in any given territory

Harriet Tubman gained fame

by helping slaves to escape to Canada

In light of future evidence, it seems apparent that in the compromise of 1850 the south made a tactical blunder and exacerbated sectional tensions by

demanding a strong fugitive slave law

The public liked popular sovereignty because it

fit in with the democratic tradition of self-determination

An event that helped prompt the congressional enactment of the Compromise of 1850 was when President Zachary Taylor

died suddenly and a conciliatory Millard Fillmore became president.

Stephen A. Douglas proposed that the question of slavery in the Kansas-Nebraska Territory be decided by

popular sovereignty or democratic vote by the white male residents of each divided territory

Undoubtedly the most durable political offspring of the Kansas-Nebraska Act was

the emergence of the new Republican political party

Many northern states passed personal liberty laws in response to the Compromise of 1850's provision regarding

the facilitation of the return of runaway slaves to slaveowners.

One of Stephen Douglas's mistakes in proposing the Kansas-Nebraska Act was

underestimating the depth of northern opposition to the spread of slavery