In the 1858 Abraham Lincoln-Stephen Douglas debates,
A)Lincoln called for a full and immediate abolition of slavery.
B)Lincoln made his case so strongly that he was elected to the Senate.
C)the two men agreed that a civil war over slavery was inevitable.
D)Douglas asserted that slavery was legal but not immoral.
E)Lincoln argued slavery was a threat to the growth of free labor.

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In the debates, Lincoln argued that slavery posed a threat to the growth of free labor, as it prevented white workers from being able to better their conditions through wage labor. While Lincoln did oppose the expansion of slavery, he did not call for its immediate abolition during the debates, and he was not elected to the Senate as a result of the debates. The two men did not agree that a civil war over slavery was inevitable, and while Douglas argued that slavery was legal, he did not go so far as to argue that it was not immoral.

In the 1858 Abraham Lincoln-Stephen Douglas Debates