Senator Stephen Douglas said the main idea behind the Kansas-Nebraska Act was popular
sovereignty, “the great principle of self-government.” Whose voices were absent in the decision over whether or not to permit slavery in the territories and why were they ignored?
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 affected the political balance between free and slave states and explore how its author, Stephen Douglas, promoted its policy of popular sovereignty in an effort to avoid a national crisis over slavery in the federal territories. This lesson will also consider Abraham Lincoln's counter-argument that both the Declaration of Independence and Constitution committed the national government to extending freedom, not slavery.
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