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Abraham Lincoln gave his "House Divided" speech on June 17, 1858, when he was running for senator in Illinois. He lost the election to the incumbent Stephen Douglas, but beat Douglas and two others to be elected President in 1860.
Where the Declaration of Independence stressed the right of a people to sovereignty, Lincoln was saying that the Southern states wanted their own laws that conflicted with those of the other states of the Union, to which they had freely joined. He said that the US must either have slavery legal everywhere, or illegal everywhere.
The courts at the time had been confusingly inconsistent on the right of one person to enslave another, as occurred in the South. But Northern abolitionists were pressing to end slavery completely, to the detriment of the agriculturally-dependent South.
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Which two documents express the strongest desire for independence?
The Declaration of Independence and the speech by Tecumseh.
Compare and contrast the Mayflower Compact the Letter by Columbus the Speech by Tecumseh and the Declaration by how they view independence?
The Declaration calls for independence; the other two do not.
Was the Declaration of Independence a speech?
No, it was just a written document but it reads like a speech because it was intended to be used to tell King George III all the problems he was creating. Copies were made, one of which was sent to King George.
Is there an allusion to the Declaration of Independence in the 'I have a dream' speech?
Yes, in the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson writes "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal..." In Martin Luther King, Jr.'s I Have a Dream speech, he states "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed, 'We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal.'"
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small and varity speech
