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Lincoln-Douglas debates | Summary, Dates, Significance, & Facts

Lincoln-Douglas debates, series of seven debates between the Democratic senator Stephen A. Douglas and Republican challenger Abraham Lincoln ...

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858 - National Park Service

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858. The Lincoln-Douglas debates were a series of formal political debates between the challenger, Abraham ...

Lincoln‑Douglas Debates ‑ Background, Summary & Significance

The Lincoln‑Douglas debates were a series of seven public debates in 1858 between Republican challenger Abraham Lincoln and incumbent ...

Lincoln–Douglas debates - Wikipedia

Douglas, as the Democratic candidate, held that the decision should be made by the residents of the new states themselves rather than by the federal government ...

Lincoln-Douglas Debates | American Battlefield Trust

Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln faced off in a series of debates focused on slavery as they vied for a United States Senate seat representing Illinois.

Historical Analysis of the Lincoln Douglas Debates

The debates consisted of Douglas accusing Lincoln of being an abolitionist while Lincoln accused Douglas of wanting to nationalize slavery. These main topics ...

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates 4th Debate Part I

Mr. Lincoln took the stand at a quarter before three, and was greeted with vociferous and protracted applause; after which, he said:

The Timeless Value of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates

The debates remind us of what greatness has been achieved in our democratic debates in the past, and what might yet be achieved again.

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates - Digital History

During the course of the debates, Lincoln and Douglas presented two sharply contrasting views of the problem of slavery. Douglas argued that slavery was a dying ...

Lincoln, Douglas, and Their Historic Debates

Even though Illinois had no slaves, the 1858 debates focused exclusively on the fate of slavery. Douglas argued that white people should decide for themselves ...

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates over Slavery Explained | Britannica

Transcript. The Lincoln-Douglas debates were a series of seven debates between Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas and Republican challenger Abraham Lincoln ...

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates - YouTube

The Lincoln Douglas Debates of 1858 were some of the most controversial in US history. Having deepened the divide between North and South ...

Abraham Lincoln's notes for a debate

In these notes, believed to have been jotted down in preparation for a political debate, Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) logically refutes the arguments that ...

Lincoln Douglas: The Basics - College of Liberal Arts

The series of debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas were the first political, electoral debates held in the United States.

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates 1st Debate - Teaching American History

Mr. Lincoln wants to know why I voted against Mr. Chase's amendment to the Nebraska Bill. I will tell him. In the first place, the bill already conferred all ...

The Debate Over the Debates: How Lincoln and Douglas Wages a ...

The 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates sparked an explosion of public interest in Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, and the sport of political debating itself.

DEBATES - St. Olaf College

Lincoln started his campaign for the Senate with a statement of what he thought was the crucial issue in his most dramatic statement, the House Divided Speech ...

Fifth Debate: Galesburg, Illinois - Lincoln Home National Historic ...

Mr. Lincoln asserts to-day as he did at Chicago, that the negro was included in that clause of the Declaration of Independence which says that all men were ...

Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858

A series of seven debates for the Illinois State Senate were held across the state of Illinois between Republican nominee Abraham Lincoln and Democratic ...

Our moral lights - Jack Miller Center

This week we celebrate the 164th anniversary of the first Lincoln-Douglas debate. It marked the beginning of a series of seven prominent debates between ...