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1. Lincoln attempted to carve out a moderate position on slavery, by basically saying that he did not highly like the idea of slavery however he would not stop people or states from having or acquiring slaves. He says this because he knows that if he would completely go against slavery then the South would most likely wants to split from the Union. So Lincoln attempted to keep a moderate position.

2. Lincoln contended that Douglas' ultimate goal was with regard to the expansion of slavery within the country. While Lincoln argue that equality was for all people, Douglas argued strongly against him. However no matter how much they argued both knew that abolishing slavery would be hard because it was such in demand especially in the South. Lincoln contended that Douglas' ultimate goal was with regards to extend slavery.

3. During the debate each man accused the other one about certain things. In this debate Lincoln accused Douglas of not following with Dred Scott decision. Douglas then accuse Lincoln of being wrong about his accusation. Both lies go hand in hand, during those debates each man accused the other of lying.

4. Lincoln asked whether the people of a territory could exclude slavery prior to applying for statehood. Douglas responded with the answer of yes, that prior to applying for statehood people with a territory could exclude slavery.

5. Douglas use the audience's racial fears to discredit Lincoln during the debate. The fear that the audience had was that one day black would be considered as equal to whites. This was the fear he used to discredit Lincoln. Douglas also referred to Lincoln's party as the black Republican Party. Douglas did this because he knew that Lincoln was a supporter of freedom of slaves as well as their equality.

6. Lincoln and Douglas differed greatly on the issue of admitting new pro slavery states into

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