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How Did Popular Sovereignty Collapse in Kansas Territory? - The Failure of Popular Sovereignty in Bleeding Kansas | Sleepy Facts About History
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In 1854, Congress erased the Missouri Compromise line and passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, leaving the future of slavery in the western territories to a vote by the settlers who arrived there. This mechanism, known as popular sovereignty, was meant to bypass the national deadlock over slavery. Instead, it transferred a moral and constitutional crisis onto contested ground where the rules of voting and legitimacy were entirely up for grabs. This episode examines how Kansas Territory…
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