Stephen Douglas was the guy who created pop sov, and he was a Democrat. That’s what I put.
I swear we learned in my history class that the free soil party supported popular sovereignty extensively. @asappebble . There were definitely lots of democrats that didn’t want slavery to be voted on and just wanted it to be an institution.
@yesyesyes1 But democrats knew that wasn’t possible as evident in the long string of compromises. Popular Sovereignty was really their last play because the North was going to have the ability to have more states than them. By the time of the Kansas-Nebraska Act (the real test of popular sovereignty) the Free Soil Party no longer existed. Also, I don’t think they were ever influential enough for their opinions to really matter one way or another in terms of the question. But I always learned in APUSH that the Free Soil Party was 100% against the expansion of slavery into the west at all because they wanted that “frontier” to be exclusive for emerging white farmers away from corporate influence and large plantations.
@theAtlantic Popular sovereignty was proposed in 1847 - it definitely wasn’t the Democrats “last play”. Also to group such a separated Democratic party (Northern Democrats vs. Souther Democrats) - to me at least - seems like a blatantly wrong choice. We’ll just have to wait and see, but I’m very confident in it being the Free Soil Party.
@yesyesyes1 i think ur wrong, free soil party was only for free soil. - absolutely no extension of slavery
ok. That came off a little condescending, but I’m probably interpreting it wrong. I’m equally confident it wasn’t the Free Soil Party (considering they supported the Wilmot Proviso) but I guess we’ll see! Everything I learned, (and a bit of googling I did just now) tells me the Free Soil party was pretty uncompromising on the issue.
I did find this on wikipedia
"Lewis Cass, the Democratic Party’s 1848 presidential nominee, supported popular sovereignty for determining the status of slavery in the U.S. territories. This stance repulsed the New York State Democrats and encouraged them to join with anti-slavery Whigs and the majority of the Liberty Party to form the Free Soil Party, which was formalized in the summer of 1848 at conventions in Utica and Buffalo, New York. "
@yesyesyes1 Democrats was definitely the answer. Free Soil has no association with pop sov
agreed, I’m almost positive it was democrats
what was the answer to the question about andrew jackson’s 1828 election?
The Free Soil Party wanted the land in the territories for white men only; I don’t they would support popular sovereignty which would have possibly allowed slavery north of the 36 30 line.
@mz00001 I think it was the one about All-White-Male suffrage because he was the first “poor” president, and won mainly through appealing to commoners.
Definitely democrats. They wanted expansion of slavery into territories, so obviously they pushed for popular sovereignty (which led to Bleeding Kansas when tons of Southerners poured into Kansas to vote proslavery)
does anyone remember the other answer choices for the one about who the president elects? besides speaker of the house?
@mat324
sec. of agriculture
supreme court justice
and then some other obvious choice
Speaker of the House is the answer to that question. A very similar question was on a blue book practice test. @mat324
@yesyesyes1 Thanks, I know that was the answer I’m just trying to remember what the other answers were to make sure that I put that
@mat324 other option was attorney general
and sec of state
@jaze445 im pretty sure it was that one was skileld and unskilled whereas the other was just unskilled laborers
whatd you guys say for the one where we had to match the organization to the group at the beginning of the 20th century? Answer choices were NAM to factory workers, NAACP to sharecroppers, AFL to skilled workers, etc.
I put NAM to factory workers
@mat324 the AFL was prominent for being only for skilled workers. Saying skilled and unskilled is definitely wrong.