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The idea of allowing the people of a territory to

decide if it would be slave or free was known as
what?

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act was an 1854 bill that mandated “popular sovereignty”–allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state's borders.

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