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MatroZZZ [7]
3 years ago
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Why did so many Americans closely follow the Lincoln-Douglas debates?

History
2 answers:
GarryVolchara [31]3 years ago
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Many Americans followed the Lincoln-Douglas debates as it discussed several important points of American Politics and would also shape the future of the course of American Politics and policies.

Explanation:

  1. Slavery was a big issue in the States and after the independence, Abraham Lincoln was the first President who waged a political war for the complete abolition of slavery.
  2. Douglas, on the other hand, gave the territories the freedom to choose if they wanted to keep on having slavery or not unlike Lincoln.
  3. There were a total of seven debates in between Lincoln and Douglas where afterwards Abraham Lincoln won the elections and subsequently abolished slavery for once and all.
  4. The win of Abraham Lincoln was also supported by the majority of the Americans and soon after America emerged as one of the biggest Republics and a politically powerful nation closely watched by the Americans.
velikii [3]3 years ago
4 0

Answer:

Explanation:

Historians have traditionally regarded the series of seven debates between Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln during the 1858 Illinois state election campaign as among the most significant statements in American political history. The issues they discussed were not only of critical importance to the sectional conflict over slavery and states’ rights but also touched deeper questions that would continue to influence political discourse. As Lincoln said, the issues would be discussed long after “these poor tongues of Judge Douglas and myself shall be silent.”

What is often overlooked is that the debates were part of a larger campaign, that they were designed to achieve certain immediate political objectives, and that they reflected the characteristics of mid-nineteenth-century political rhetoric. Douglas, a member of Congress since 1843 and a nationally prominent spokesman for the Democratic party, was seeking reelection to a third term in the U.S. Senate, and Lincoln was running for Douglas’s Senate seat as a Republican. Because of Douglas’s political stature, the campaign attracted national attention. Its outcome, it was thought, would determine the ability of the Democratic party to maintain unity in the face of the divisive sectional and slavery issues, and some were convinced it would determine the viability of the Union itself. “The battle of the Union is to be fought in Illinois,” a Washington paper declared.

Did you know? Lincoln and Douglas participated in seven debates throughout Illinois, one in each of the state's Congressional districts.

Although senators were elected by the state legislatures until 1913, Douglas and Lincoln took their arguments directly to the people. The timing of the campaign, the context of sectional animosity within which it was fought, the volatility of the slavery issue, and the instability of the party system combined to give the debates a special importance. Not long before, Douglas had defied President James Buchanan and the southern Democratic leadership when he opposed the admission of Kansas as a slave state under the controversial Lecompton constitution, a stand for which he received support from Republicans in Congress as well as their interest in his reelection. At the same time, Buchanan and the southern slave interests gave tacit (and in some instances explicit) support to Lincoln’s candidacy because of their hostility to Douglas. As a result of this strange alignment, Lincoln’s principal task was to keep Illinois Republicans from supporting Douglas by exposing the moral gulf that separated them from the senator and to win the support of radical abolitionists and former conservative Whigs. A relative newcomer to the antislavery cause (before 1854, he said, slavery had been a “minor question” with him), Lincoln used the debates to develop and strengthen the moral quality of his position.

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