What event resulted in abraham lincoln receiving national attention?

a) passage of the missouri compromise
b) debate with stephen douglas in his campaign for the senate
c) john brown's raid on harpers ferry

In 1855 Lincoln unsuccessfully tried to get the Senate, and a year later he joined the newly formed Republican Party. He ran for the nomination for vice president in elections in 1856, but lost to William Lewis Dayton. Between August 21 and October 15, 1858 he conducted lively debates about slavery with Senator Stephen Douglas, which earned him popularity. Despite this, he failed to win election to the Senate, which was lost with Douglas

so B. :)

most people were factory or company owners.

both are true, the congress does have the power to create banks, even if this power is not specifically described in the constitution, since there is nothing restricting it and there is power given to the congress to make "all laws which shall be necessary and proper". maryland was not allowed to tax a branch of the national bank operating there, and the supreme court decided that no state could. both of these topics were discussed in a decision of the mcculloch v. maryland case in 1819.