The right answer for the question that is being asked and shown above is that: "his defeat of Stephen Douglas in the 1858 Senate race in Illinois." the statement that most contributed to Abraham Lincoln’s emergence as a Republican Party leader is that <span>his defeat of Stephen Douglas in the 1858 Senate race in Illinois
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beginning in 1923 i think
Thanks to the fact that Mesopotamia was between two major rivers, Tigris and Euphrates, it was possible for agriculture to become highly developed there because the soil was extremely fertile, which led to the rise of the civilizations there.
