Document two provides readers with information that in May of eighteen fifty-six, Cass presented a speech for the United States Senate that stated his opinion on what they United States should be acting upon, protecting, and enforcing among its people. Lewis Cass states his idea of popular sovereignty to the United States Senate and this idea led to the start of the start of the Civil War. After the Mexican-American War took place and the United States received California and some Southern States, sectionalism increase tremendously because of the splitting of America into the United States and the Confederate States. Cass’s idea of popular sovereignty influenced American citizens to form the Confederate States and eventually start the Civil
Document two provides readers with information that in May of eighteen fifty-six, Cass presented a speech for the United States Senate that stated his opinion on what they United States should be acting upon, protecting, and enforcing among its people. Lewis Cass states his idea of popular sovereignty to the United States Senate and this idea led to the start of the start of the Civil War. After the Mexican-American War took place and the United States received California and some Southern States, sectionalism increase tremendously because of the splitting of America into the United States and the Confederate States. Cass’s idea of popular sovereignty influenced American citizens to form the Confederate States and eventually start the Civil