1. LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATES By: Michaela Carter & Angela Owens

2. Summary The Lincoln-Douglas debate was the debate between Stephen A. Douglas, the democratic incumbent, and Abraham Lincoln, the republican challenger. The Lincoln-Douglas debate was the debate between Stephen A. Douglas, the democratic incumbent, and Abraham Lincoln, the republican challenger. Lincoln challenged Douglas for the senatorial seat that led to a series of open-air debates over slavery. Lincoln challenged Douglas for the senatorial seat that led to a series of open-air debates over slavery. The debate took place in 1858 in Illinois. The debate took place in 1858 in Illinois.

3. How did this event help lead to the civil war? Douglas won the senate seat Douglas won the senate seat Douglas’s response to the Freeport Doctrine worsened the split between the northern and southern democratic party. Douglas’s response to the Freeport Doctrine worsened the split between the northern and southern democratic party. This also showed Lincolns talent, which made him a popular candidate for the 1860 election. This also showed Lincolns talent, which made him a popular candidate for the 1860 election.

4. Primary source “My principles are the same everywhere. I can proclaim them alike in the North, the South, the East, and the West. My principles will apply wherever the Constitution prevails and the American flag waves. ” “My principles are the same everywhere. I can proclaim them alike in the North, the South, the East, and the West. My principles will apply wherever the Constitution prevails and the American flag waves. ” -Senator Stephen A. Douglas -Senator Stephen A. Douglas “My main object was to show, so far as my humble ability was capable of showing to the people of this country, what I believed was the truth that there was a tendency, if not a conspiracy among those who have engineered this slavery question for the last four or five years, to make slavery perpetual and universal in this nation.” -Abraham Lincoln

5. SECONDAY SOURCE This is William H. Pierce account of the debate between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in Peoria, Illinois on October 16, 1854. Holograph manuscript, ca. 1900. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (018.00.00)

6. Bibliography Freeport Doctrine. (2010). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved October 24, 2010, from Encyclopædia Britannica Online: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/218638/Freeport-Doctrine Freeport Doctrine. (2010). In Encyclopædia Britannica. 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