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This 10 page paper discusses ten issues that relate to the American Civil War. Bibliography lists 5 sources
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in between. This paper describes, explains and argues the historic importance of ten topics related to the conflict. The Issue of Popular Sovereignty The term "popular sovereignty" refers to the
idea that the citizens of each state have the right to determine for themselves, without being pressured by outside forces, whether that state shall be a free state or a
slave state (Popular sovereignty, 2007). The idea of throwing the decision back to the settlers themselves was thought to be one way of mitigating the escalating tensions over slavery, but
in reality it was a poor method of doing so, "since proponents disagreed as to the stage of territorial development at which the decision should be made" (Popular sovereignty, 2007).
Stephen A. Douglas, who backed the doctrine, said he wanted the choice made "at an early stage of settlement" while others felt that it shouldnt be made until just
before the territory became a state (Popular sovereignty, 2007). The doctrine became part of the unfortunate Compromise of 1850, which well discuss below; it was also made a part of
the Kansas-Nebraska Act (Popular sovereignty, 2007). Popular sovereignty is important for several reasons, none of them good. First, it increased tensions between slave holders and abolitionists; second, it became codified
as part of equally bad legislation; and finally, it led directly to violence such as that which earned "Bleeding Kansas" its dreadful nickname. "Bleeding Kansas" Kansas earned its nickname because
of the violence that occurred there. Kansas was still a territory when the controversy began. Once treaties had been concluded with the tribes settlers began to pour in, some trying
to make Kansas a slave state and others vowing to keep it free. It shared a border with Missouri, a slave state at that time, and Missourians who were intent
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