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Abraham Lincoln's failed run at an Illinois Senate seat in 1858 featured which notable political event?

The Lincoln-Douglas debates
The Gettysburg Address
The Declaration on the Rights of Man
An assassination attempt on Lincoln

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Answer: A - In 1858 Lincoln ran for the Senate against Stephen A. Douglas, and during the campaign the men faced off in seven debates, which came to be known as the Lincoln-Douglas debates. In them, Lincoln made his legendary “A House Divided” speech. Douglas won the Senate seat, but the men faced off again two years later for the presidency, which Lincoln won.

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