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Abraham Lincoln who was a republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois. Stephen Douglas who was a senator in the Democratic Party candidate. During the time United State Senators were elected by state legislatures. They were trying to win control of the Illinois legislature. They decided to hold one debate in each of the nine congressional districts of Illinois. The first debate was in Ottawa Illinois. Douglas charged Lincoln with trying to abolitionize the Whig and…

labor to earn money. While his family and he moved to Illinois, they had to live in a log cabin, which he helped to build by gathering wood that he also used to build a fence. According to Biography.com, Lincoln began his political career after the Black Hawk War. He was elected state legislature in Illinois in 1834 and became a member of the Whig party. He was the only one who gave loyalty to the party in which he stood in the House of Representatives from 1847 to 1849 even though the Whig…

kidnapping me now instead to assassinate me. John Booth used his actor's connection here to reach access to the president's box. Then while I was watching a play at the Ford's Theatre John Booth shot me in the back of the head. The next day I died at the house across the street. On May 4th,1865 I was buried in oak ridge cemetery in Springfield,…

One reason why is that the system favors some citizens over others. To prove my point, if you were to take 12 states + DC, you would get a population total of 12,500,722, and an electoral vote total of 44. But, if you take a state, in this case, Illinois, that has a higher population,12,830,632, than the 12 states and DC, you get only 20 electoral votes. How does that make sense? A state with a higher population than 12 states and a capital gets lesser votes. This is from document D. This…

Lincoln ever entered the White House. Lincoln’s handling of the Civil War and the abolishment of slavery allowed America to enter a new age of prosperity.…

house of representatives from 1847-1849. While Lincoln was in office, he used his short amount of time to speak out against the Mexican-American war, as well as supporting Zachary Taylor for president in 1848. Lincoln ended up getting very unpopular after his criticism of the war, therefore he decided that he would return to Springfield to practice law. In the 1850’s, Abraham Lincoln decided to become a lobbyist for the Illinois Central Railroad as its company attorney…

strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy. Born in Hodgeville, Kentucky, Lincoln grew up on the Western frontier in kentucky and Indiana. Largely self-educated, he became a lawyer in Illinois, a Whig Party leader, and a member of the Illinois House of Representatives, in which he served for twelve years. There is so much we can learn by studying Abraham Lincoln's journey from being just another politician to become America's…

the number of actual individual votes that each candidate receives from American citizens. The Electoral College is a body of representatives from each state who make the decision on which presidential candidate will receive their states votes. Each state receives a different number of votes based on their population and how many representatives that state has in the House. A candidate can beat their opponent…

Florence Kelley, a chief inspector of factories for Illinois, advocated Women and Children’s rights. Not only did Florence Kelly help win passage of the Illinois Factory Act in 1893, which persuaded the court to limit work hours, but she prohibited child labor and limited women’s working hours in the United States. For the most part, Kelley argued to the court because she cared about children and women. Prohibition, a banning of alcoholic beverages, involved Prohibitionist groups who feared the…

Sine California passed the law that mandated a safe staffing act; there have been seven other states that adopted laws in regard to staffing for nurses. These states include Oregon, Washington, Ohio Illinois, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Texas. The difference between the other seven states and California, however, is that California has a fixed nursing-to-patient ratio. Majority of the other states tend to model the American Nurses Association Safe Staffing Principles model, which only requires…