Question

How did Abraham Lincoln become a rising star in the Republican party?

Group of answer choices

he was a skilled fighter and frontiersman

he debated Stephen Douglas very well in Illinois

he had married a wealthy widow

Answer 1

In 1849, he returned to his law practice but became vexed by the opening of additional lands to slavery as a result of the Kansas–Nebraska Act. He reentered politics in 1854, becoming a leader in the new Republican Party, and he reached a national audience in the 1858 debates against Stephen Douglas.

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