Stephen A. Douglas

The Lincoln-Douglas debates, also known as the Great Debates of 1858, were a series of seven debates between two politicians running for the senate seat of the state of Illinois. The politicians were the republican nominee, Abraham Lincoln, and the democratic nominee, incumbent Stephen Douglas. The debates covered a series of topics, the most pertinent being the issue of slavery and its expansion into the newer western territories. The idea of the debates came forth after both Lincoln and Douglass had given speeches opposing one another in two of Illinois’ congressional districts. Lincoln and Douglas agreed to the series of seven debates in the remaining congressional districts: Ottawa, Freeport, Jonesboro, Charleston, Galesburg, Quincy, and…

way to showcase their talents as orators. Although the series of encounters between Lincoln and Douglas has gone down in history as an excellent series of debates; “What was peculiar about these debates was that they were not, in the strictest sense, debates at all. They were sequences of speeches, with only the most meager nod in the direction of interaction between speakers.” (Guelzo, 2008, p. 94) However, Lincoln used this almost unorthodox form of debating to his advantage. Over the course…

Stephen Douglas proposed a law called “Popular Sovereignty”, this law lets people from territories like Kansas and Nebraska vote whether or whether not slavery was allowed in the territories. (Mr. Adreon’s Notes) This act reversed the Compromise of 1820. The Compromise of 1820 said no slavery was allowed North of latitude 36°30. Before popular sovereignty, Kansas and Nebraska had to be a free territory therefore, getting more votes for the North in the senate. This infuriated the South.…

Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas were two prominent figures in American politics in the 1850’s. Douglas, a spokesperson for the Democratic party, was looking to be reelected for his third term in the United States Senate. Lincoln, a representative for the Republican party, was running for the Senate in the very seat that Douglas currently held. These two men engaged in a series of seven debates, that would garner national attention and speak to various issues regarding the political…

Douglas was a strong believer of the Manifest Destiny of the United States to expand its borders and grow further west. He led actions to help the nation fulfill its manifest destiny by supporting, demanding and supporting the annexation of Texas, the acquisition of Oregon and the Mexican War. The thing that was in his way was the divisive issue of slavery. Douglas was a man in favor of the preservation of the Union and worked to fulfill that goal by leading the fight for the Compromise of…

Theory X and Theory Y by Douglas McGregor, summarizes a difference between management styles in that Theory X is an authoritarian style which assumes employees are naturally unmotivated, and Theory Y is a participative style and assumes that employees are self-motivated and enjoy working with greater responsibility (Mindtools, n.d.). In my workplace, I am more partial to Theory Y. I think that unless personally observed, managers should not just assume that otherwise mature, responsible adults…

land operations and securing bases of interest for the US (75). Being the first true proponent of these concepts, it took some time before they caught on with the leaders in Washington. However, there were many men scattered throughout the Corps, such as Earl Ellis, who truly believed in Lejeune’s proposal. Ellis did everything he could to help ensure that Marines became a landing and expeditionary force, such as writing the Advanced Base Operations in Micronesia, which predicted and outlined…

The Battle of Leyte Gulf took place in the Philippines and pitted Japanese and the United States naval forces against one another for command and control of the western Pacific region during World War II. The Philippines, to the United States, was another stepping stone closer to striking at Japan’s home island and also a vital staging point to wage war against Japan’s merchant supply line of valuable resources such as oil and fuel. Japan was required to defend the Philippines in the interest of…

“He had a way of touching your elbow or shoulder, upping his chin with a slight jerk and crowding into his eye such a warmth of blessing… he made you feel you’d contributed a boon to the whole human race” (“Douglas MacArthur” 1). MacArthur came from a background of a strict military upbringing. His father and grandfather were both generals and being raised on a military base MacArthur was destined to be a part of the United States military. His life was shaped and structured, but he had a…

He is quoted as stating that the original reason behind the conceptualisation of this movie was a direct response to his rejection for the title role in the movie Ben Hur, released just one year earlier. It was the decision of William Wyler, the director of this movie that the leading role would go to Charlton Heston, with Douglas offered the secondary part of the eventual villain, Messala. Douglas rejected the lesser role, and went on to admit in later years that his goal with Spartacus was to…