
*Profiles the life and presidency of Abraham Lincoln with a special focus on his debates with Stephen Douglas in 1858.
*Explains the central issues of the 1850s, including the Missouri Compromise, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, popular sovereignty and the Dred Scott Decision.
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*Profiles the life and presidency of Abraham Lincoln with a special focus on his debates with Stephen Douglas in 1858.
*Explains the central issues of the 1850s, including the Missouri Compromise, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, popular sovereignty and the Dred Scott Decision.
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"This declared indifference, but, as I must think, covert real zeal for the spread of slavery, I cannot but hate. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world-enables the...