Popular Sovereignty

What is Popular Sovereignty?

• Being popular in the world
• People voting and having a say in the governments decisions
• People voting
• The act of the 20th admendment and it’s rules.

What is another name for Popular Sovereignty?

• Commercial Sovereignty
• Voting
• Voting Rights
• Squatter Sovereignty

What admendments do Popular Sovereignty appear in?

• 27th, 24th, 19th
• 10th, 15th, 17th, 19th, 23rd, 26th
• All of the admendments 
• All of the above 

What year were woman allowed to vote, and what admendments passed it?

• 1920 - 9th, 10th, 19th
• 1921 - 9th, 10th, 19th
• 1930 - 5th, 6th, 18th
•  1910 - 3rd, 12th, 13th

Why is Popular Sovereignty important?

•  The rights and liberties of the citizens are not fully protected by national or international standards
• It gives woman the right to vote
• It shows people how they vote and why they vote for congress
• Our rights have the right to vote and choose the person we want running our country

What would happen if we didn’t have Popular Sovereignty?

• Voting without paying the government would be illegal
• There would be a dictatorship 
• Everyone’s rights about voting would be taken away
• They may not have been the amendment made about how everyone has an equal chance to vote

Who created Popular Sovereignty ?

• Thomas Jefferson
• Stephen Douglas
• William Harvey
• Alexander Hamilton

Where where was Popular Sovereignty founded?

• Georgia
• New York
• Kansas
• Pennsylvania

Who first proposed Popular Sovereignty?

• William Howard
• Josh Williams
• Marcus Johansson 
• Lewis Cass

Why was popular sovereignty important in the Civil War?

• People living in a new territory to decide by vote of their territorial legislature
• To vote, you could send a letter of who you wanted to vote for
• If you didn’t want to vote in another state you didn’t have to
• People that wanted to vote, but were in another state than the one you lived in could vote without signing papers