During the 1858 senatorial campaign in Illinois, there was a series of 7 debates between the Republican Lincoln and the Democrat Douglas. They were mainly about the extension of slavery into the territories.
Question: What were the key issues in the Lincoln-Douglas debates?
Answer: Lincoln did not want to see slavery expand. Douglas believed in popular sovereignty.
"popular sovereignty" which really just allowed settlers of the territory to decide whether slavery would be banned within their new state's border. Causing many people to rebel including the KKK.<span />
The accomplishment that is not mentioned on Jefferson's tombstone is that he was the third president of the United States of America.
The document proclaimed that texas was a free separate republic from mexico
