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Missouri Compromise (1820)
1820 compromise over the expansion of slavery into new territories applying for statehood
Daniel Webster, "The Constitution and the Union" Speech to the Senate, March 7, 1850
Speech delivered by Daniel Webster urging compromise between the free and slave states, 1850
The Lincoln Douglas Debates (1858)
Series of eight public debates across Illinois between Senate candidates Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in 1858
Abraham Lincoln, House Divided Speech (1858)
Speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln at the Republican State Convention in Springfield, Illinois on June 16, 1858
Abraham Lincoln, Letter to Henry Pierce (1859)
1859 letter written by Abraham Lincoln honoring Thomas Jefferson
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