What is popular sovereignty?
Answer 1
A government where there is government by the people. This, in turn, limits the powers of government.
answer 2
Popular sovereignty means that the people living in this region must choose whether they are a free state or a slave. Southerners were afraid of them mainly because only plantation owners really needed slaves.
answer 3
1: a doctrine of political theory that government is created and subject to the will of the people 2: a pre-Civil War doctrine affirming the right of people living in a newly organized territory to decide by vote of their legislature territory whether or not slavery would be permitted there. government by the people through elected representatives.