The Lincoln and Douglas debates were a series of seven political debates that took place in 1858 Illinois between Abraham Lincoln, (the challenger) and Stephen A. Douglas (incumbent), in a campaign for one of the two Illinois Senate seats. These debates were performed in seven of the nine Illinois Congressional Districts. There many causes but the main one was slavery territory.
A large part of the debate were to address the concerning issue of slavery extension into the territories.The bondage augmentation question had apparently been settled by the Missouri Compromise almost 40 years prior. The Mexican War, on the other hand, had included new regions, and the issue erupted again in the 1840s. The Compromise of 1850 gave a provisional
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Around then, legislators were picked by state councils and the Democrats could take control of the Illinois governing body. In any case, Lincoln could take this annihilation and transform it into triumph two years after the fact. He took the transcripts of the open deliberations and distributed them in book structure. The national consideration on the verbal confrontations conveyed him to the consideration of the Republican Party and earned him the selection to keep running for president in 1860. Once more, he confronted Stephen Douglas running for the Southern Democratic gathering. On election day, the voters of Illinois chose members of the state legislature who in turn reelected Douglas to the Senate in January 1859. Although Lincoln lost, the Republicans received more popular votes than the Democrats, signaling an important shift in the political character of the state. Moreover, Lincoln had gained a reputation throughout the North. He was invited to campaign for Republican candidates in other states and was now mentioned as a candidate for the presidency. In winning, Douglas further alienated the Buchanan administration and the South, was soon to be stripped of his power in the Senate, and contributed to the division of the Democratic