• One platform declared that the people of a territory had the right to decide if slavery would be legal or illegal.

    VOA: special.2009.07.09

  • But he believed that the people of a territory had the right to make their own decision to accept or reject slavery.

    VOA: special.2009.05.21

  • Cass and Douglas supported the idea of letting the people of a territory decide if slavery would be permitted in that territory.

    VOA: special.2009.04.16

  • Buchanan said he expected the Supreme Court to rule soon on the right of the people of a territory to decide this.

    VOA: special.2009.05.14

  • Scott's owner raised the questions: Did Congress have the Constitutional power to close a territory to slavery?

    VOA: special.2009.05.14

  • They did not want to live next to a territory where slavery was not legal.

    VOA: special.2009.04.30

  • They were given a large area of land north of Wyoming in the Dakota territory.

    VOA: special.2010.04.01

  • Roosevelt moved to a ranch in the Dakota territory of the American West.

    VOA: special.2010.08.05

  • And by letting the people of a territory decide if they wanted slavery.

    VOA: special.2009.05.14

  • The United States first claimed Hawaii as a territory in eighteen ninety-eight.

    VOA: special.2009.12.02

  • Nebraska was neither a state nor a territory.

    VOA: special.2009.04.23

  • Their discovery started a rush of people traveling to the American territory of Alaska and across the border to Canada.

    VOA: special.2009.02.11

  • A military spokesman told VOA that the army hoped to free all civilians trapped in rebel territory by Sunday.

    VOA: special.2009.05.16

  • The legislature would have the power to keep the territory open to slavery and,in time,help it become a slave state.

    VOA: special.2009.04.30

  • On January twenty-fourth, eighteen forty-eight, a man named James Wilson Marshall discovered gold in the territory of California.

    VOA: special.2010.04.25

  • The first major battle on Northern territory has just been fought that day a hundred kilometers from Washington.

    VOA: special.2010.05.10

  • It believed some of the nations involved would use the Boxer Rebellion as a way to gain more control over Chinese territory.

    VOA: special.2010.07.29

  • He would ask Congress to accept the pro-slavery Kansas constitution and make the territory a slave state.

    VOA: special.2009.05.21

  • The government built a series of bases in the New Mexico territory to protect the settlers and goods moving along the Santa Fe Trail.

    VOA: special.2009.03.30

  • So could letting another country use a state's territory for aggressive acts against a third state.

    VOA: special.2010.06.21

  • And it was the capital of the New Mexico territory before the territory became a state.

    VOA: special.2009.03.30

  • He said the people of a state or territory had the right to decide for themselves.

    VOA: special.2009.04.23

  • He said Congress had the right to govern such territory until it became a state.

    VOA: special.2009.05.14

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