Douglas's stand that people could exclude slavery by refusing to pass laws protecting slaveholders' rights came to be known as
a. douglas's debate.
c. the freeport doctrine.
b. the slaveholder's rights.
d. douglas's doctrine.

The correct answer is C) the Freeport Doctrine.

Douglas's stand that people could exclude slavery by refusing to pass laws protecting slaveholders' rights came to be known as Freeport Doctrine.

This was the position Democrat Senator Stephen A. Douglass took during his second debate with Republican Abraham Lincoln in Freeport, Illinois, onAugust 27, 1858. Douglas said that slavery could be legally prohibited from the territories if states' Congress rejected slavey. Without enforcement of the laws, slavery could be prohibited.

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