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Answer: The Gadsden Purchase, or Treaty, was an agreement between the United States and Mexico, finalized in 1854, in which the United States agreed to pay Mexico $10 million for a 29,670 square mile portion of Mexico that later became part of Arizona and New Mexico.
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.