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9 lis 2009 · Stephen A. Douglas was a controversial and influential politician known as a champion for popular sovereignty and his widely followed debates with Abraham Lincoln. Douglas played a key role in...
14 paź 2024 · Stephen A. Douglas, American politician, leader of the Democratic Party, and orator who espoused the cause of popular sovereignty with respect to slavery in the territories before the Civil War. He is best known for his series of eloquent debates with Republican Senate candidate Abraham Lincoln in 1858.
Stephen Arnold Douglas (né Douglass; April 23, 1813 – June 3, 1861) was an American politician and lawyer from Illinois. A U.S. Senator, he was one of two nominees of the badly split Democratic Party to run for president in the 1860 presidential election, which was won by Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln.
11 sie 2023 · Significance of Stephen Douglas. Stephen Douglas is important to the history of the United States for his support of western expansion — Manifest Destiny — the organization of those territories, and the Transcontinental Railroad.
Although a complex statesman, Stephen Douglas stood as one of the leading political figures in the coming of the American Civil War. Stephen Douglas was born in the midst of the War of 1812, on April 23, 1813, in Brandon, Vermont and grew up on his uncle’s farm in the state.
29 paź 2009 · The Lincoln-Douglas debates were a series of seven public debates in 1858 between Republican challenger Abraham Lincoln and incumbent Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas.
Known as “the Little Giant” because his political stature far exceeded his height of five-foot-four, Illinois senator Stephen A. Douglas remained a prominent national figure from his first election to the Senate in 1847 until his death in 1861.
