Popular sovereignty

Popular sovereignty was the concept that territories in the west would vote upon whether or not slavery would be allowed once they became states. This was used to help slow the expansion of slavery westward, but had the potential to backfire if the South saw it…

straightforwardly addressed the expansion of slavery. • Lincoln was against slavery, and simply wanted to prevent further expansion. He thought it was the national government’s job to work on issues with slavery, while, Douglas argued that popular sovereignty was the way to address the issue, because it was…

The historical political development of Latin America is one that has been wroth with bloodshed, disagreement, and ultimately compromise. As we begin to analyze this area of the globe and its current state of political development—ranging from the impending impeachment of Brazilian President, Dilma Rouseff to the crippling democracy occurring under the quasi-dictatorship of Nicolas Maduro—it is important to critically engage with the historical trends and values which gave rise to a continent of…

make a document that holds historical and revolutionizing work. In addition, we should look at the interpretation of the enlightenment thinkers that morphed into a piece of parchment paper to which values natural rights, liberty, equality, and popular sovereignty. The men who assisted in writing the Declaration of Independence such as Benjamin Franklin from Pennsylvania, John Adams from Massachusetts, and Thomas Jefferson from Virginia all were inspired…

Different Types of Democracy Democracy is a system of political doctrine that favors intervention in the government of a state by appointing its leaders, falling sovereignty in the people, and taking as based concepts such as political equality of citizens before the law. Democracy also takes political rights and duties as universal suffrage, freedom of choice, and other freedoms. Often they accompany the establishment of a democratic state, ass press freedoms, detached, association, expression…

democrat David Wilmot proposed a bill saying that slavery wouldn’t be allowed in new acquired territory. The bill passed in the house but couldn’t make it through the senate. Later the disputed territory would be determined slave or free states by popular sovereignty. Keeping the balance between slave and free state wasn’t the only thing slavery influenced in politics. With the rise of abolitionist (people who were antislavery) two major figures emerged William Lloyd Garrison and Fredrick…

America formed many compromises to resolve political disputes between the years of 1820 and 1860. Many of political uprisings were caused by the conflict over slavery; should slavery be legal, or abolished? The Second Great Awakening was a religious reform in the early nineteenth century America, preachers like Charles Finney travelled around the world to lecture people about the importance of religion. These preachers lectured to their audience that their sins could be cleansed forever.…

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates were a series of seven debates between August 21st, 1858 and October 15th, 1858, between Demorcrat Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln during the 1858 Illinois senatorial campaign. It largely concerned the issue of slavery extensions into the newly acquired territories. Lincoln delivered his now famous "A House Divided" speech when he was nominated to run for the Senate by the Republican convention in Springfield. In part, Lincoln said that a nation divided against…

Compromise of 1850 1850 The Compromise of 1850 was first presented by Henry Clay. It consisted of five major parts: admitting California as a free state, the question of slavery in the territories would be resolved with popular sovereignty, ending the slave trade in D.C., enforcing stricter fugitive slave laws, and the Texas-New Mexico border would be fixed. When introduced, the bill was attacked by John C. Calhoun, who demanded that the North end its efforts to limit slavery. The debates…

bill would be called upon and debated on furiously for decades to come. Popular sovereignty began to appear in some alternate plans for deciding slavery in the Louisiana Territory. Polk's plan, which proposed to extend the slavery line in the Missouri Compromise to the pacific, aroused further debates for the North and the South. California and New Mexico raised even more questions about the implementation of popular sovereignty and the admissions of a free state upsetting the Senate balance.…