Question

Stephen Douglas's Freeport Doctrine ___________________.

• A. would cost Douglas his Senate seat in the 1858 race.
• B. accomplished what Douglas sought which was to remain a viable presidential candidate in both the North and the South.
• C. show that popular sovereignty could still exist after the Dred Scott decision.
• D. was widely interpreted as being in support of an abolitionist position.
• E. inspired a wave of slave revolts.

Answer 1

The correct option is A would cost Douglas his Senate seat in the 1858 race.

Stephen Douglas's Freeport Doctrine came after the failure of his Kansas Nebraska Act, which though passed lost the support both from the North and the South. The North opposed the spread of slavery and the south wanted it to extend. According to Douglas's Freeport Doctrine, the settlers couldn't prohibit slavery in the territory in the pre-state or pre-constitution state.