Question 5 • (MACS) 2021 NY-US History CR Summer Quarter 1
Lincoln first ran for the U.S. Senate as a Republican in 1858, against Democrat Stephen A. Douglas. He had previously served in Congress as a Whig, and in 1856 he was not running for president. Therefore, the correct choice is “the 1858 Senate election.”
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