Freeport+Doctrine

=Freeport Doctrine=

toc In 1858 Stephen Douglas created the Freeport Doctrine in Freeport, Illinois. It was the second Lincoln and Douglas debate for running for the U.S Senate. Douglas had to choose between the popular sovereignty and the Supreme Court case of Dred Scot v. Standford. Stephen chose to promote the popular soverignty because any state or territory could have slavery or not have it by passing laws favorable to either choice.

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There are three steps that led up to the creation of the Freeport Doctrine. The first one was the Ordinance of 1787, the second one was the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and the third one was the Compromise of 1850. These compromises were all dealing with the problem of having slaves in the United States.

**__ The Issues __**
We wouldn’t have had a Freeport Doctrine if there weren’t issues leading up to it. Sectional Antagonism was an issue because the North and South were having an argument over slavery. Another issue was with the states arguing about Popular Sovereignty and how they had a right to determine their own destiny instead of the government deciding it for them. A third issue leading up to the Freeport Doctrine was the westward expansion and the limits that were being put on the extension of slavery. Freeport, Illinois was very excited about the second debate which the Lincoln vs. Douglas. Abraham Lincoln focused on how slavery was a moral issue that would separate the nation. Stephen Douglas focused on slavery as a political issue. Douglas focused on knowing how to use it to assure the western territories and to use it to preserve the Union. Abraham Lincoln asked Stephen Douglas an important question in the debate which was the fundamental question which made history. Lincoln asked if Douglas thought people of a territory could exclude slavery from their territory. Douglas replied that people in a territory could vote to include or exclude slavery regardless of what their state or federal government said. This became known as the Freeport Doctrine.
 * __ The Excitement of the Debate __**
 * __ The Debate __**

**The Freeport Doctrine Comes to an End**
In the end the Lincoln vs. Douglas debates played a very big part in the beginning of the Civil War. In the end the Freeport Doctrine and the debates against Douglas was a great gain for Lincoln for his nomination for president two years later. In the Freeport Doctrine Douglas said things about slavery that many southern democrats didn’t like, which in the end made him lose the election of 1860. Over all the Freeport Doctrine made the Civil War start quicker than expected.

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Garraty John A. __The Story of America.__ Austin, TX: Holt, Rinehart and Winston,1994.