Kansas civics ch 18 19 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Kansas Civics Ch 18 & 19 Popular sovereignty: ️Notion advanced before the Civil War that the sovereign people of a given territory should decide whether to allow slavery. Seemingly a compromise, it was largely opposed by northern abolitionists, who feared it would promote the spread of slavery to the territories. Free Soil party: ️Anti Slavery party in the 1848 and 1852 elections that opposed the extension of slavery into the territories, arguing that the presence of slavery would...