SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
THE LINCOLN DOUGLAS DEBATES OF 1858
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Question
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Douglas lost most of the southern support
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southerners supported Lincoln
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they protested
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they did nothing
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Detailed explanation-1: -How did southerners react to the Lincoln-Douglas debates? Southerners believed that Abraham Lincoln was an abolitionist and also felt betrayed by Stephen Douglas’s suggestion that territories could refuse to grant slavery legal protection.
Detailed explanation-2: -Southern Demand for a Federal Slave Code (1860) The Freeport Doctrine caused the South to demand a Federal Slave Code. They wanted the Federal Government to guarantee slavery could exist in all territories.
Detailed explanation-3: -Abraham Lincoln Lincoln’s performance in the 1858 debates raised his reputation nationally. Lincoln’s performance made his reputation nationally and by 1860, he was nominated by the Republican party presidential candidate. Lincoln won the election and became the 16th president of the United State.
Detailed explanation-4: -Lincoln-Douglas debates, series of seven debates between the Democratic senator Stephen A. Douglas and Republican challenger Abraham Lincoln during the 1858 Illinois senatorial campaign, largely concerning the issue of slavery extension into the territories.