Popular sovereignty allowed Kansans to decide which of the following for themselves?

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whether to nominate President Zachary Taylor for a second term
whether to nominate President Zachary Taylor for a second term

whether to return slaves who escaped to the Kansas Territory to their owners
whether to return slaves who escaped to the Kansas Territory to their owners

whether to allow women the right to vote in the Kansas Territory
whether to allow women the right to vote in the Kansas Territory

whether to allow slavery in the Kansas Territory

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Popular sovereignty allowed Kansans to decide whether to allow slavery in the Kansas Territory. This principle was central to the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which gave the territories the right to determine for themselves whether to permit slavery.

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