Question

In 1854, Stephen Douglas proposed a bill that would set up territorial governments in Kansas and Nebraska on the basis of ________.

Answer 1

Popular sovereignty

Step-by-step explanation:

Kansas Nebraska Act was proposed by Stephen Douglas and became a bill in 1854 after signed by President Franklin Pierce. Aiming to build a transcontinental road, it needed the support of southern allies and therefore it breach the Missouri Compromise of 1850 by which the pro-slavery territories are separated by anti-slavery territories by the latitude north of the 36°30′. The act allowed the settlers to decide on the issue of slavery through popular sovereignty and it resulted in Bleeding Kansas and later Civil war.