A Study of The Major Political Issues
That Divided America in The Mid 19th Century
-Ed Scooberman -
By 1858 the American nation had grown rapidly, both in population and in the acquisition of land. Its development was marked by change and compromise sufficiently utilizing the substantial governing system set forth in the U.S. Constitution; yet a complicated and controversial issue stood unresolved. The issue of slavery threatened the union like never before and through the Illinois state senatorial race lines were drawn. The Lincoln-Douglas debates examined the national controversies of slavery and land expansion in a political forum that prompted Americans to define their positions, thus provoking an American civil war.
On August
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