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QuizMultiple Choice

Rebuilding the South

Question 15 • (MACS) 2021 NY-US History CR Summer Quarter 1

Which did Stephen Douglas support?

Answer
A
free labor
B
popular sovereignty
C
racial equality
D
abolitionism

Explanation

Stephen Douglas supported popular sovereignty, the idea that settlers in a territory should decide whether to permit slavery. He promoted this approach in the Kansas-Nebraska Act. The correct choice is popular sovereignty; Douglas did not support abolitionism or racial equality.

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