LINCOLN AND DOUGLAS

LINCOLN'S VALUES

• Intelligent
• Ambitious
• A successful lawyer
• Good at politics
• He saw slavery as wrong

DOUGLAS'S VALUES

• Successful lawer
• He didn't like slavery but thought it would interfere with our nations growth
• He thought the issue could be solved through popular sovereignty
• Douglas was very powerful and know as "the Little Giant"

SIMILARITIES

• Both were successful lawyers
• Both disliked slavery
• Both had political experience

DIFFERENCES

• Douglas was well known, whereas Lincoln was basically unknown
• Lincoln was born in a poor home in Kentucky
• Lincoln had little formal education
• Douglas was born was born in Vermont

By: Alice, Paige, Grace, Sam, and Mikella