The Illinois legislature was ran by Democrats, and Mr. Douglas was a Democrat. So they chose Douglas instead of Lincoln. Hopefully this helped!! =“)
In the 1990s, Iraq invaded a neighboring country to gain access to oil fields and naval ports.
Many southern conservatives opposed Kennedy's Executive Order 10925, or Affirmative Action, to end discrimination in schools/workplaces. One major point is that it completely abolished the whole idea of meritocracy, a society governed by people with the knowledge and ability to 'rule'. It would destroy the idea of meritocracy by putting race as the superior determining factor in determining hiring and admissions.
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The Civil War erupted from a variety of long-standing tensions and disagreements about American life and politics. For nearly a century, the people and politicians of the Northern and Southern states had been clashing over the issues that finally led to war: economic interests, cultural values, the power of the federal government to control the states, and, most importantly, slavery in American society.
While some of these differences might have been resolved peacefully through diplomacy, the institution of slavery was not among them.
With a way of life steeped in age-old traditions of white supremacy and a mainly agricultural economy that depended on the labor of enslaved people, the Southern states viewed enslavement as essential to their very survival.
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