Question

What is the term where people get to vote whether or not they want to allow slavery in their territory? question 5 options: emancipation proclamation popular sovereignty wilmot proviso habeas corpus?

Answer 1

This term was known as popular sovereignty and resulted in debate over many decades in both State legislatures and the United States congress. It led to tension across the free and slave states, even leading to a event known as Bleeding Kansas in which the residents would determine whether to be free or slave