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16) President Lincoln’s win for presidency was controversial because he only had 40 votes from the Electoral College.
17) Out of 343 cases conducted under the Fugitive Slave Act, over 100 African Americans were set free.

18) The purpose of the Lincoln-Douglas debates was for Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas to announce their candidacies for Presidency and gain support of voters from the South.

An absolute majority is necessary to prevail in the presidential and the vice presidential elections, that is, half the total plus one electoral votes are required. With 538 Electors, a candidate must receive at least 270 votes to be elected to the office of President or Vice President.

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Harriet Tubman is perhaps the most well-known of all the Underground Railroad's "conductors." During a ten-year span she made 19 trips into the South and escorted over 300 slaves to freedom. And, as she once proudly pointed out to Frederick Douglass, in all of her journeys she "never lost a single passenger."

Lincoln and Douglas participated in seven debates throughout Illinois, ... Douglas had defied President James Buchanan and the southern ... support to Lincoln's candidacy because of their hostility to Douglas. ... the senator and to win the support of radical abolitionists and former

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the word that best sums up the tone of the newspaper regarding the treaty of versailles is resentful.