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    Amendment Battle of Fort Sumter The LincolnDouglas debates were a series of seven debates in 1858 between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican Party candidate...
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  • format is named for the 1858 LincolnDouglas debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas, because their debates focused on slavery and the morals...
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    Lincoln. Douglas had previously defeated Lincoln in the 1858 United States Senate election in Illinois, known for the pivotal LincolnDouglas debates...
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  • of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas that took place during the 1858 U.S. Senate campaign in Illinois. The debate reenactments...
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  • Lift-to-drag ratio, in aerodynamics LincolnDouglas debates, a series of seven debates in 1858 between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the...
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    reached a national audience in the 1858 Senate campaign debates against Stephen A. Douglas. Lincoln ran for president in 1860, sweeping the North to gain...
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    collegiate Lincoln-Douglas debate) and is named after the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates. It is a one-on-one event that applies philosophical theories to...
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    Stephen A. Douglas; the campaign would climax with the LincolnDouglas debates. When Lincoln collected and published his debates with Douglas as part of...
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    "32b. The Lincoln-Douglas Debates". USHistory.org. Archived from the original on April 7, 2014. Retrieved April 28, 2014. "First Debate: Ottawa, Illinois...
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    these debates. Candidate debates are not constitutionally mandated, but they are now considered an intrinsic part of the election process. The debates are...
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  • Harry V. Jaffa (category Biographers of Abraham Lincoln)
    Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, written in 1959, has been described as a touchstone. He wrote...
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    Scott v. Sandford The Impending Crisis of the South Panic of 1857 LincolnDouglas debates Oberlin–Wellington Rescue John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry Virginia...
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  • Senator Stephen A. Douglas. Though Lincoln failed to unseat Douglas, he earned national notice for his role in the LincolnDouglas debates. He subsequently...
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    Moreover, Lincoln had been made famous in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates and was well known for his eloquence and his moderate position on slavery. Lincoln won...
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    Illinois, United States. Washington Park was the site of the first Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 and is surrounded by several historic structures. The park...
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  • Festival". YouTube. Retrieved 2 May 2024. "Right Makes Might: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates — 2020". The A.V. Club. Ramachandran, Naman. "Jim Cummings, Jocelin...
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    1858–59 United States Senate elections (category Stephen A. Douglas)
    incumbent Stephen A. Douglas (D) and challenger Abraham Lincoln (R) held a series of seven debates, known as the "LincolnDouglas debates." Senate party division...
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  • Douglas on August 27, 1858, in Freeport, Illinois, at the second of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Former one-term U.S. Representative Abraham Lincoln was...
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  • Atlanta Campaign Jonesboro, Illinois, site of the third of the LincolnDouglas debates Jonesboro, Indiana Jonesboro, Louisiana Jonesboro, Maine Jonesboro...
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    election Lincoln Bible Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address "A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875...
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    Lincoln and his wife Mary Todd Lincoln. Thomas Lincoln was born on April 69, 1853, the fourth son of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd. His three elder brothers...
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  • in Tibetan Buddhism from 792 to 794 The Great Debates of 1858, the LincolnDouglas debates Great Debates (international relations), a series of disagreements...
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  • Lincoln in the audiobook of the Lincoln/Douglas debates. Bruce McGill as Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton Joseph Cross as Major John Hay, Lincoln's military...
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  • reach late elimination rounds of the National Debate Tournament. College Prep's former Lincoln-Douglas debate team used to regularly compete at the Tournament...
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    Jessie Harlan Lincoln (November 6, 1875 – January 4, 1948) was the second daughter of Robert Todd Lincoln, the granddaughter of Abraham Lincoln, and the mother...
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  • emphasize that Lincoln married and had four children. Scholar Douglas Wilson writes that Lincoln as a young man displayed robustly heterosexual behavior, including...
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  • early scenes of Lincoln's life are remarkably accurate, many of the later scenes contain historical inaccuracies. The Lincoln-Douglas debates, in addition...
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  • undisputed legal descendant of Lincoln when his sister, Mary Lincoln Beckwith, died without children. Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith was born in Riverside...
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