The ideas William H. Seward promotes in the passage from A History of
Lawrence, Kansas are based on which of the following political philosophies?

Popular Sovereignty

Explanation: In the passage it stated that “ The [Kansas-Nebraska Act] provided that the people of the territory should themselves determine whether it should be slave or free”. Popular Sovereignty is the principle that authority of a state and government are created and sustained by the consent of its people. So basically it is saying that the people have a right to voice their opinion on what should happen in the state of government, in this case determining if Kansas should be a free or slave state.

beowulf is considered an epic poem because it describes the actions of a great warrior.

beowulf is taken into account an epos. in this poem, the main character may be a hero who travels nice distances to prove his strength at not possible odds against supernatural demons and beasts. in the poem, beowulf was a young warrior and he leaves his country to hrothgar, as hrothgar was in a great trouble.