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Bell Ringer (Mon.) 3-31-2014

Bell Ringer (Mon.) 3-31-2014. Popular sovereignty : a policy stating that voters in a territory, not Congress – should decide whether to allow slavery there. It may be immediate in the sense that the people make the law themselves. Bell Ringer (Tue.) 4-1-2014. Wilmot Proviso:

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Bell Ringer (Mon.) 3-31-2014

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  1. Bell Ringer (Mon.) 3-31-2014 Popular sovereignty: • a policy stating that voters in a territory, not Congress – should decide whether to allow slavery there. It may be immediate in the sense that the people make the law themselves.

  2. Bell Ringer (Tue.) 4-1-2014 Wilmot Proviso: • Doctrine created by David Wilmot who proposed a law stating, “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any” lands won from Mexico.

  3. Bell Ringer (Wed.) 4-2-2014 Free-Soil Party: • Pledged to a “national platform of freedom” that would “resist aggressions of the slave power.” • MAIN GOAL TO KEEP SLAVRY OUT OF WESTERN TERRITORIES

  4. Bell Ringer (Thur.) 4-3-2014 Secede: • To break away from the Union (United States)

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