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C. Allowing newly added territories to the United States decide for themselves the slavery issue.</span>
Popular sovereignty was proposed as a way to decide the issue of slavery in the new territories. Under such a system, the local population would decide the slavery issue rather than Congress.
The foundation of Jim Crow laws was that the "African Americans are culturally and intellectually inferior to white people."
China's nationalist government collapsed after a war with European armies.
