Had the Compromise of 1877 not taken place, David Davis, a politician from this state, may have individually selected the winner of the election.
A politician from this state co-authored the 13th Amendment and tried to combat the Black Codes by introducing the First Civil Rights Act; that politician was Lyman Trumbull. Had the Compromise of 1877 not taken place, David Davis, a politician from this state, may have individually selected the winner of the election. As personal bodyguard to a president from this state, Ward Hill Lamon vehemently denied the existence of a (*) "Baltimore plot" to assassinate that president. That president from this state discussed the expansion of slavery in his Peoria Speech and his Cooper Union address, and debated the proposer of the Freeport doctrine during during an 1858 senate race. For 10 points, name this state once represented by Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln
A politician from this state co-authored the 13th Amendment and tried to combat the Black Codes by introducing the First Civil Rights Act; that politician was Lyman Trumbull.
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