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12 de fev. de 2021 · Abraham Lincoln’s fame in the 1850s owed mainly to his provoking a public quarrel with Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas over the correct interpretation of the American founders. As the nation grew increasingly divided over the future of slavery, Lincoln and the new Republican Party sought to prevent the expansion of slavery into federal territories […]
11 de jun. de 2018 · Douglas, Stephen Arnold (1813–61) US statesman. Douglas served in the House of Representatives (1843–47), before becoming Senator for Illinois (1847–61). He tried to unite the Democratic Party on the issue of slavery, and was instrumental in the Compromise of 1850. He sponsored the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), that promoted popular ...
3. Stephen Douglas was one of the brokers of the Compromise of 1850 which sought to avert a sectional crisis; to further deal with the volatile issue of extending slavery into the territories, Douglas became the foremost advocate of popular sovereignty, which held that each territory should be allowed to determine whether to permit slavery within its borders.
13 de mai. de 2024 · Michael Levy. U.S. presidential election of 1860, American election in which Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell. After Lincoln’s election seven Southern states seceded, setting the stage for the American Civil War.
A Wikimédia Commons tartalmaz Stephen A. Douglas témájú médiaállományokat. Stephen A. Douglas ( Brandon, 1813. április 23. – Chicago, 1861. június 3.) az Amerikai Egyesült Államok szenátora (Illinois, 1847–1861).
16 de dez. de 2021 · Originario de Vermont, Stephen Douglas nació en 1813. Pasó sus primeros años en el noreste y se mudó a Illinois en 1833. Durante un tiempo trabajó como profesor, pero pronto comenzó a estudiar derecho. En 1847 se casó con Martha Martin, cuyo padre dejó a la pareja una vasta plantación en Mississippi a su muerte, dándoles una cantidad ...
15 de mar. de 2019 · Lincoln-Douglas Debates. In the summer and the fall of 1858 two of the most influential statesmen of the late antebellum era, 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. In the long term, the Lincoln-Douglas debates propelled Lincoln ...
