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| In a series of seven debates in 1858, Abraham Lincoln challenged United States Senator Stephen Douglas’s support of a law allowing slavery in free territory. Lincoln lost his bid for Douglas’s Senate seat, but the debates helped pave the road to the presidency. | ||||||
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| Douglas, Stephen Arnold; President of the United States; Lincoln, Abraham | ||||||
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