In order to get the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed Stephen Douglas __________________________.

Appealed to the North by promising two more free states.

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Gave support to a Southern route for a transcontinental railroad.

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Tried to appeal to both sides by claiming neither Nebraska nor Kansas would apply for statehood for at least a decade.

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Announced that the bill was as it was and he would accept no compromises. claiming the will of the people was represented by Congress.

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Pushed for popular sovereignty to decide if Kansas and Nebraska would have slavery or not.

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The correct option is E Pushed for popular sovereignty to decide if Kansas and Nebraska would have slavery or not.
Stephen A. Douglas was a Democratic Senator who drafted the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854). The Act allowed the people settled in the territory to decide for themselves whether to allow slavery in their territory or not. This was Douglas' idea of Popular Sovereignty. At the background of this Act was the transcontinental railroad Project and in order to gain the support of the southerners, Douglas promised creation of two new territories in the Kansas Nebraska area.

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Q. Why did Stephen Douglas support the idea of Popular Sovereignty when designing the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?

I. "The Kansas-Nebraska Act authorizes the further extension of slavery and we have, do now, and will continue to protest most emphatically against slavery." (1854)

II. "The territories were the common property of the several states. As a joint agent of the states, Congress has no power to deny the citizens of any state the right to take their property into a territory Therefore slavery is legal in the territories. If Wilmot carries, woe, woe I say to the union." (1850)

III. "We beg the slave owners to pause before they proceed further to disturb the peace we had hoped the Compromise of 1850 would have made perpetual." (1854)

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