The excerpt below is from the Lincoln-Douglas Debates in 1897:

"If the people . . . want a slaveholding state, let them have it, and if they want a free state they a right to it. . . ."

What decision does the quote above describe?

Fugitive Slave Act

Dred Scott decision

Missouri Compromise

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question

The excerpt below is from the Lincoln-Douglas Debates in 1897: 

"If the people . . . want a slaveholding state, let them have it, and if they want a free state they a right to it. . . ." 

What decision does the quote above describe? 

 Fugitive Slave Act 

 Dred Scott decision 

 Missouri Compromise 

 Kansas-Nebraska Act

anonymous · Answer

@Captain_Page_Turner

anonymous · Answer

From what I could find out, the debate the quote is from was over the Kansas-Nebraska Act. 

The Act allowed the territories to decide whether or not they wanted to support slavery by virtue of popular consensus -- if everyone voted for slavery, then it would be there. If not, then it wouldn't.

anonymous · Answer

I'm glad ur smart or I wud die from stress lol