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After the 1858 midterm election, Stephen Douglas kept his Senate seat, but Abraham Lincoln won national acclaim. Republicans took control of the House and swept northern gubernatorial races, but Democrats maintained a majority in the Senate.
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Manifest Destiny supporters would be in favor of D acquiring land west of the Mississippi river. Manifest Destiny is the belief that America should take land from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean.
This may not be right but probably the big effect was it killed alot of people.
The USS Maine was sunk in the Harbour of Havana, Cuba, during a revolt of the cubans against Spain. Public opinion in the USA was that Spain was to blame. Starting as a diplomatic issue between Spain and USA, rapid escalation resulted in war between the two countries.
