1. Wounded Knee Massacre 2. Oklahoma Land Rush 3. Dawes Allotment 4. Sitting Bull Surrenders 5. Battle of Little Big Horn 6. Discovery of Gold in the Black Hills 7. "Big Bonanza" discovered on Comstock Lode 8. Hunters Begin to Decimate Bison Herds
Lincoln was supporting Wilmot Proviso, which was a failed attempt to ban slavery.
When Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas met in a series of seven debates as they ran for Illinois Senate seat, they heatedly debated a critical issue that day, slavery.
Debates raised Lincoln's profile, helping to encourage him to run for president two years later.
However, Douglas will actually win the 1858 Senate election.
