Question

What was "popular sovereignty" in the context of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

Choose 1 answer:
A. Popular sovereignty left it up to the citizens of each territory to negotiate their own treaties with Native Americans.
B. Popular sovereignty left it up to the citizens of new territories to decide whether they wanted to enter the Union or organize as independent nations.
C.
Popular sovereignty left it up to the citizens living in each territory to decide whether that territory would enter the Union as a slave state or a free state.

Answer 1

C

Explanation:

In the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, popular sovereignty allowed the citizens to decide if slavery was allowed or not.